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A steam pipe explosion sparked road closures and evacuations in Manhattan’s Flatiron district on the morning of July 19, police confirmed.The New York Police Department said the closures were ...
On August 19, 1989, a large steam explosion in front of a residential building generated an asbestos-containing steam cloud in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. [1] Two people–a Con Ed worker and a 3rd floor resident–died instantly, and 24 were injured. [2] A third person, another Con Ed worker, died the following ...
Con Edison is now the largest operator of the New York City steam system, which is the largest commercial steam system in the world with more than 100 miles (160 km) of steam pipe. [ citation needed ] It provides steam service to nearly 2,000 customers serving more than 100,000 commercial and residential establishments in Manhattan south of ...
The New York Steam Company began providing service in lower Manhattan on March 3, 1882. [2] The company merged with Consolidated Edison on March 8, 1954. [2] [3] Today, Con Edison operates the largest commercial steam system in the world (larger than the next nine combined). [4]
A steam pipe explosion in New York City's Flatiron District on Thursday morning sent steam spewing high above buildings and created a crater-like hole on 5th Avenue. The explosion, which occurred ...
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Consolidated Edison acquired or merged with more than a dozen companies between 1936 and 1960. Con Edison today is the result of acquisitions, dissolutions, and mergers of more than 170 individual electric, gas, and steam companies. Consolidated Edison acquired land on the Hudson River in Buchanan, NY, in 1954 for the Indian Point nuclear power ...
Con Edison is continuing cleanup efforts in Yonkers after a company-owned transmission feeder accidentally spilled 1,000 gallons of insulating fluid which leaked into a storm drain leading to the ...