Job Site City: Queens

The original New York City Subway line was built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and opened in 1904.  The 59th Street Powerhouse, better known as the IRT Powerhouse, stretches from 58th and 59th Streets, and Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues, taking up an entire city block in Manhattan. At the time it was built, […]

The Ravenswood Generating Station is a 1,480 megawatt powerplant in Long Island City, in Queens, New York along the East River.  It was originally built and owned by Consolidated Edison in 1963.  Con Edison in 1962 had plans on building a 1,000-megawatt nuclear plant at the Ravenswood site, but the it was so strongly opposed […]