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Waterside Generating Station was a power station in Manhattan, New York City, that opened in 1901 and was one of the first power plants in the United States that generated electricity using steam turbines. Built by the New York Edison Company, the facility was located in the Murray Hill neighborhood on the east side of First Avenue between East ...
NYCDEP manages three upstate supply systems to provide the city's drinking water: the Croton system, the Catskill system, and the Delaware system. The overall distribution system has a storage capacity of 550 billion US gallons (2.1 × 10 9 m 3) and provides over 1 billion US gallons (3,800,000 m 3) per day of water to more than eight million city residents and another one million users in ...
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 ]
722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8054-4. "Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. December 5, 2017. Interborough Rapid Transit: The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment. Interborough Rapid Transit Company ...
These fissures contributed to an extent to the failure of the Iron Workers' New York City strike, called in 1921 to resist the American Plan, the open shop movement that reversed much of the labor movement's gains, particularly in construction, of the previous decade. When the strike failed, the union sued the employers, also without success.
American Radiator Company Factory Complex, also known as the Pierce Plant, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Stamping Plant, Institute of Thermal Research, Equipment Plant, and Malleable Foundry, is a historic factory complex located in Buffalo, Erie County, New York.
The local is new, by trades-union standards, having been formed in 2011 via a merger of three independent locals – Local 106 of Albany, New York, Local 545 of Syracuse, New York, and Local 832 of Rochester, New York. [26] Local 158, now comprising three united but semi-autonomous districts is led by Business Manager Jonathan Lanse, and based ...
Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ (often shortened to SEIU 32BJ, 32BJ SEIU or just 32BJ), is a branch of Service Employees International Union headquartered in New York City which mainly represents building workers (maintenance, custodial, janitorial, window cleaners) and has about 150,000 members in ten northeastern states, Washington, D.C., Florida and other parts of the ...