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The Copper (formerly known as American Copper Buildings and 626 First Avenue) are a pair of luxury residential skyscrapers in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The buildings were developed by JDS Development and were designed by SHoP Architects with interiors by SHoP and K&Co. The buildings are one of several major collaborations between JDS and SHoP; others include 111 West 57th Street, also in Manhattan, and The Brooklyn Tower in Brooklyn. The site the two towers occupy was originally a lot that hosted the Consolidated Edison Kips Bay generating station.
The Consolidated Edison Company Building, designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh for the Consolidated Gas Company, was built between 1910 and 1914. Warren & Wetmore's 16-story tower – topped by a "Tower of Light" designed to look like a miniature temple and capped by a bronze lantern which lights up at night ] was added between 1926 and 1929.215
Consolidated Edison Company of New York provides much of the electricity and gas power as well as steam service needed to run New York City. This plant sits along the East River.
Brooklyn Bridge NYC on canvas low detail texture and a little contrast adjustment. I took this photo on a trip to NYC while working in the city. The company I was working with at the time did work for Consolidated Edison. It is such a awesome architectural beauty you just cannot pass up taking a photo of if you are at it's base or if in the city it is a must go see while there.
View from World Trade Center (South Tower) to East River, Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge behind. The East River comes from the left background, the right bay is "Wallabout Bay" with the decommissioned Brooklyn Navy Yard. At the Bay are some chimneys (better in the image before), they are gone in the meantime and belonged to the large power plant of the Consolidated Edison Company (1920s).
scanned slide, Minolta X700
Planta de Consolidated Edison Company of New York (East River Station (14th St. y FDR), para la generación de electricidad y vapor para sistemas de calefacción, en el East Side, con el Empire State al fondo.
The East River flows in the murky darkness on the left side. All these lights were made possible by the Consolidated Edison plant in the center left puffing away coal smoke. It would be another 20 years before a TV antennae spire topped off the Empire State Building.
The Consolidated Edison Building, also previously known as the Consolidated Gas Building, is a Neoclassical skyscraper built in 1928. Designed by the architectural firms of Warren and Wetmore and Henry Hardenbergh, construction began in 1926 for the future headquarters of Consolidated Edison. The building, located at 4 Irving Place, takes up the entire block between East 14th and 15th Streets and Irving Place and Third Avenue.
Previously, the building's location had been the site of the Academy of Music, New York's third opera house, as well as the original Tammany Hall building. It was originally built for the Consolidated Gas Company, although its predecessor companies, such as the Manhattan Gas Light Company, were located at the same address as early as 1854. On February 10, 2009, the building was declared a National Historic Landmark.
The Consolidated Edison Building, also previously known as the Consolidated Gas Building, is a Neoclassical skyscraper built in 1928. Designed by the architectural firms of Warren and Wetmore and Henry Hardenbergh, construction began in 1926 for the future headquarters of Consolidated Edison. The building, located at 4 Irving Place, takes up the entire block between East 14th and 15th Streets and Irving Place and Third Avenue.
Previously, the building's location had been the site of the Academy of Music, New York's third opera house, as well as the original Tammany Hall building. It was originally built for the Consolidated Gas Company, although its predecessor companies, such as the Manhattan Gas Light Company, were located at the same address as early as 1854. On February 10, 2009, the building was declared a National Historic Landmark.
Providence & Worcester RR B39-8 #3906, B30-7A #3006, and B39-8 #3902 haul westbound stone train CHFP (Cedar Hill Yard to Fresh Pond Junction) past Jenna Concrete Corp. on CSX’s Market Running Track in the Van Nest section of the Bronx, NY on the night of May 28, 2009. Of the six tracks that once spread across here, only 3 remain. In the foreground and center are Amtrak's New York Division tracks one and two. Behind me are the remains of the New Haven's once sprawling Van Nest shops, which were responsible for both light and heavy repairs of their electric locomotives. A sizable portion of the main shops still remains and is now owned by Consolidated Edison and used as a service center.
The East River Generating Station is a 317-megawatt oil and natural gas fired facility sited along the East River in Manhattan. The power station has two steam generating units that became operational in 1951 (Unit 6) and 1955 (Unit 7).
The Consolidated Edison Building is a neoclassical skyscraper in Gramercy Park. The 26-story building was designed by the architectural firms of Warren and Wetmore and Henry Janeway Hardenbergh. It serves as the headquarters of energy company Consolidated Edison, also known as Con Ed.
The site formerly contained Tammany Hall and the Academy of Music, as well as the offices of Con Ed's predecessor, Consolidated Gas. The gas company was originally headquartered at 15th Street and Irving Place, but had outgrown its original building by the 1910s. As a result, Hardenbergh designed an expansion for the existing headquarters, which was constructed from 1911 to 1914. This expansion was later incorporated into a larger structure built by Warren and Wetmore between 1926 and 1929. Upon completion, the building's design was lauded by local media, and its "Tower of Light" became a symbol of the local skyline. (Iren Gurarye)
As COVID19 continues to ravage the New City Metro area and its 19 million inhabitants heed our stay at home orders I continue to after work or in early morning spend time going through my photo archives. I found this from late summer 2018 as I sojourned one evening through Union Square in Manhattan. This building has been slowly surrounded and unless you have a higher vantage point I would imagine its difficult to get a good perspective of the ConEdison building. The Consolidated Gas Company building as it was originally known was built in 1928 at 14th Street and Irving Place in New York is now known as the ConEdison tower. This headquarters was designed by the same firm that was most famous for Grand Central Terminal, Warren & Wetmore. The lovely 24-story limestone tower, its corners clad with mock quoining: courses of stone raised to create a column of protruding blocks. The tower itself rises 425 feet, ending in a 16-foot-wide clock face repeated on four sides, a recessed loggia of giant columns and then a colossal, crowning bronze lantern. Within the giant lantern were five great beacons, one aiming straight up through a hole in the top and the others coming out the windows.
At first glance my statement of it originally being called Consolidated Gas Company would appear a paradox of sorts because the extravagant electric lighting on its tower was built for a consortium of gas companies. In the late 19th century in ‘advanced’ metropolises like New York City, gas lines ran through edifices which provided light until proponents of electricity like New Jersey’s own Thomas Edison pushed that electrical lighting was both cheaper and more convenient. The Consolidated Gas Company was formed in the 1880’s when newly developed electrical companies began angling for lighting contracts. However around 1900 what had started as a gas consortium had begun buying up the competition: electric companies. In 1936 the Consolidated Gas Company changed its name to Consolidated Edison at which time 75 percent of company revenues were from electricity, 4 percent from steam and only 21 percent from gas.
I've added a number of notes identifying some of the prominent buildings of the time. In case your browser doesn't support Flickr notes, here's what they say going from left to right...
1) The tall building on the left is the original Madison Square Garden topped off with a bronze sculpture of the Roman goddess Diana holding a bow and arrow. It was constructed in 1879.
2) In the smoggy left distance is the brand new 59th Street Bridge which was completed only two years before this photo was taken. (it's hard to see in all the smog caused by burning coal).
3) Massive Consolidated Edison electric and gas plant. It spanned from 35th Street up to 41st on the banks of the East River way before the FDR Expressway was built.
4) On the right is another new structure, the New York Life Insurance building at the corner of East 26th street and 51 Madison Avenue near Madison Square Park in Midtown South.
The Consolidated Edison Company Building, designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh for the Consolidated Gas Company, was built between 1910 and 1914. Warren & Wetmore's 16-story tower – topped by a "Tower of Light" designed to look like a miniature temple and capped by a bronze lantern which lights up at night ] was added between 1926 and 1929.
View along the Bowery towards uptown from Prince Street
Blick entlang der Bowery Richtung Uptown von der Prince Street aus
Some buildings in the back/ einige Gebäude im Hintergrund:
'Empire State Building'
'Metropolitan Life Tower'
'Madison Square Park Tower' ('45 East 22nd Street')
'Consolidated Edison Building'
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New Jersey Transit ALP-46 #4600 hauls a westbound test train over Amtrak’s New York Division on the Hell Gate Line in the Van Nest section of Bronx, NY on August 8, 2009. These trains ran in preparation for "Football Train" to Meadowlands Stadium allowing riders to board along Metro North's New Haven Line and get to Jersey via Penn Station and the Northeast Corridor.
Part of the New Haven RR’s Van Nest shops (now owned by Consolidated Edison) can be seen in the backround.
New York Edison Company,
Electric Sign, Times Square, New York
In 1882 the Edison Illuminating Company of New York began supplying electricity in Manhattan ... By 1998 it had evolved into Consolidated Edison, Inc., one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy companies
-- Wikipedia
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The New York Steam Company began providing service in Manhattan in 1882. Today, Consolidated Edison operates the
world's largest commercial steam system.
Steam produced by steam generating stations is carried under the streets of Manhattan to heat and cool buildings and businesses. Some New York businesses and facilities also use the steam for cleaning and disinfection.
-- Wikipedia
A convoy of Con Ed crews and trucks head south on I-95 to assist Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma
Old Consolidated Edison Building with modern red brick buildings flanking. That old clock is keeping correct time !! View from West 15th Street looking over Union Square Park. Last rays ...
I took the 6 train from 77th Street (at Lexington Avenue) down to 14th Street-Union Square, then connected to an L train east to 3 Av station (at East 14th Street) to check out the Stuyvesant Square.
The agenda is to look for the statue of Peter/ Pieter/ Petrus Stuyvesant and an outlet of Fuku for lunch.
4 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003
Partial and edited quote from Wikipedia:
"The Consolidated Edison Building, previously known as the Consolidated Gas Building, is a Neoclassical skyscraper designed by the architectural firms of Warren and Wetmore and Henry Hardenber. It was completed in 1928 as the headquarters of Consolidated Edison. The building has been a National Historic Landmark since 2009. The 24-story tower is topped by a "Tower of Light" designed to look like a miniature temple, capped by a bronze lantern which lights up at night."
Closeup of the clocktower at the landmarked Consolidated Edison building at 4 Irving Place, near Union Square
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Ravenswood Generating Station, Long Island City, Queens, New York. Ravenswood Generating Station is a 2,480 megawatt power plant owned and operated by LS Power/Helix Energy Solutions Group. The plant is fueled primarily by fuel oil (no. 6) and natural gas which heats the boilers. Ravenswood was originally built and owned by Consolidated Edison of New York Inc. (Con Edison) in 1963.
around 1982
The Twin Towers rising tall and straight.
Finding this picture again was bitter sweet. I was happy to find it because I like the shot, but it also saddened me, because no one will be able to take their pictures again. Worse than that, no one will ever be able to take pictures of all the men and women who went to work 19 yrs later, not knowing it was their last day alive.
So I dedicate this picture to all them men and women, office workers, fire men, police men who died on 9/11
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center
Ultimately the complex came to consist of seven buildings, but its most notable features were the main twin towers. Each of the WTC towers had 110 stories. 1 WTC (the North Tower, which featured a massive 360-foot (110 m) high TV and radio antenna added in 1978) stood 1,368 feet (417 m) high,[20] and 2 WTC (the South Tower, which contained the observation deck) was 1,362 feet (415 m) high.[20] The length and breadth of the towers were 208 feet (63.4 m) x 208 feet (63.4 m). Although only Tower 1 featured an antenna, the structure of each building was designed to carry a broadcast mast, and in the basement of the complex, The Mall at the World Trade Center was Manhattan's largest mall until 9-11.
When completed in 1972, 1 WTC became the tallest building on Earth, unseating the Empire State Building after a 40 year reign. 2 WTC became the second tallest building in the world when completed in 1973. The difference in height between the two towers was because of a Port Authority request to have two floors, the 43rd and the 67th, in 1 WTC raised, the lower of the taller floors being a cafeteria for PANY workers.[citation needed] 2 WTC did not need these facilities, so it remained 1,362 feet (415 m). Regardless, the WTC towers held the height record only briefly. As the building neared completion in 1973, work had already begun on Chicago's Sears Tower, which ultimately reached 1,450 feet (442 m).[21] With the World Trade Center's destruction, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York, after spending almost 30 years as the third-tallest in the city.
The towers' sheer size was the subject of a joke during a press conference unveiling the landmarks. Minoru Yamasaki was asked: "Why two 110-story buildings? Why not one 220-story building?" His response was: "I didn't want to lose the human scale". Another popular joke among New York urbanites that died out late in the 1970s from overtelling was that the towers looked like the boxes in which the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building were packaged.
Of the 110 stories, eight were set aside for technical services (mechanical floors) Level B6/B5, Floors 7/8, 41/42, 75/76 and 108/109, in four two-floor areas evenly spread up the building. All the remaining floors were free for open-plan offices. Each floor of the towers had 40,000 square feet (3,700 m²) of space for occupancy.[10] Each tower had 3.8 million square feet (350,000 m²) of office space. Altogether the entire complex of seven buildings had 11.2 million square feet (1.04 km²) of space.
The lobby of the World Trade Center
The lobby of the World Trade Center
During the 1990s, approximately 500 companies had offices in the complex, including many financial companies such as Morgan Stanley, Aon Corporation, Salomon Brothers, as well as the Port Authority itself. Electrical service to the towers was supplied by Consolidated Edison (ConEd) at 13,800 volts. This service passed through the World Trade Center Primary Distribution Center (PDC) and sent up through the core of the building to electrical substations located on the mechanical floors. The substations "stepped" the 13,800 primary voltage down to 480/277 volt secondary power and further to 120/208 volt general power and lighting service. The complex also was served by emergency generators located in the sublevels of the towers and on the roof of 5 WTC.[22][23]
The 110th Floor of 1 WTC (North Tower) housed commercial and public service radio & television transmission equipment. The roof of 1 WTC contained a vast array of transmission antennas, including the 360 ft (approx 110m) center antenna mast, which was rebuilt in 1999 by Dielectric Inc. to accommodate DTV. The center mast contained the television signals for almost all NYC television broadcasters: WCBS-TV 2, WNBC-TV 4, WNYW 5, WABC-TV 7, WWOR-TV 9 Secaucus, WPIX 11, WNET 13 Newark, WPXN-TV 31, and WNJU 47. It also had four NYC FM broadcasters on it as well: WPAT-FM 93.1, WNYC 93.9, WKCR 89.9, and WKTU 103.5.[24] Access to the roof was controlled from the WTC Operations Control Center (OCC) located in the B1 level of 2 WTC.
The World Trade Center complex was protected by an extensive fire detection and voice evacuation paging system upgraded after the 1993 bombing. Fire Command Stations, staffed by Fire Safety Directors were located in the lobbies of each building and the Operations Control Center (OCC) monitored these systems. An extensive study of the performance of World Trade Center Fire Protection Systems was conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) following 2001-09-11.[25]
Observation deck and Windows on the World
Midtown Manhattan from the observation deck of the south tower which received an estimated 80,000 visitors a day, during the late 1990s.
Midtown Manhattan from the observation deck of the south tower which received an estimated 80,000 visitors a day, during the late 1990s.
Although most of the space in the WTC complex was off-limits to the general public, 2 WTC (South Tower) featured a public observation area named "Top Of The World." When visiting the observation deck, visitors would first pass through security checks added after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Next, visitors were whisked to the 107th floor indoor observatory at a height of 1,310 feet (399 m) and greeted with a 360 degree view of the New York City skyline, and exhibitions including a three-dimensional scale model of Manhattan, and a simulated helicopter ride around the city. Weather permitting, visitors could take two short escalator rides up from the 107th floor and visit what was the world's highest outdoor viewing platform. At a height of 1,377 feet (420 m), visitors were able to take in a view of the North Tower and New York City unlike any other. On a clear day, visitors could see up to 49 miles (78 km) in any given direction. An anti-suicide fence was placed on the roof itself, with the viewing platform set back and elevated above it, requiring only an ordinary railing and leaving the view unobstructed, unlike the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
The North Tower (1 WTC) had a restaurant on the 107th floor called Windows on the World, which was an elegant restaurant known as a place for big celebrations, such as weddings. In its last full year of operation, 2000, Windows on the World reported revenues of $37.5 million, making it the highest-grossing restaurant in the United States.
Digital ID: 482717. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. March 20, 1936
Notes: Looking up at statue of Lafayette from behind and left, S. Klein's store, a bank, a hotel and the Consolidated Edison Building, beyond. Code: I.B.; III.B.1.
Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
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Union Square
The 'Zeckendorf Towers' in the evening sun
In the back the top of the 'Consolidated Edison Building'
Die 'Zeckendorf Towers' in der Abendsonne
Im Hintergrund die Spitze des 'Consolidated Edison Building'
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St. Francis Xavier University (SF. X) was founded in 1853 in Arichat, Nova Scotia, and later moved to Antigonish in 1855. It began as a college/seminary and was granted university status in 1866. StFX is known for its community service and was the first co-educational Catholic institution in North America to grant degrees to women in 1897.
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1924/25 - St. Francis Xavier University / St. F. X. Senior Hockey Team, Antigonish, Nova Scotia - Winners of Interclass and Cummings Trophy.
Team Roster: (back row / left to right) -
J. P. Willett / manager
R. Campbell / defence
A. Michaud / left wing
G. Boyle / left wing
H. J. Martin / coach
(6 March 1924) - Hugh "Hughie" Martin hails from North Sydney, and turned a consistent winter's work at centre. Martin is an unselfish plugger. He is a senior. This was his second season. He played on the main / first St. F. X. Hockey team.
Dr. Hugh Joseph Martin
(b. 23 Oct 1903 in Sydney, Nova Scotia - d. 7 October 1967 (aged 63) in Sydney Mines, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, Canada)
(front row / left to right)
P. McLean / right wing
A. N. McDonald / right wing
R. McEachen / goalie
A. Sutherland / centre (captain)
L. C. Young / defence
Dr. Lewis Fraser Cumming - Cummings Trophy / Cup
(b. 8 February 1892 in New Glasgow, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada – d. 6 October 1934 at age 42 in New Glasgow, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada) - occupation - dentist / dental surgeon / he donated the Cummings Trophy to St. Francis Xavier University for interclass hockey around 1923. He died at the early age of 42 from Uremia / Cardiorenal syndrome.
1921/22 - St. F. X. Freshman Hockey Club - LINK - d2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.net/b/1/e5rjm7mom5td1x/jackhock...
1923/24 Undefeated Champions - Winner of Inter-Class and Cummings Trophy - LINK - d2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.net/n/7/pwjxeqqyr7q5df/jackhock...
1924/25 Senior Hockey Team - Winners of Inter-Class and Cummings Trophy (same postcard as above) - LINK - d2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.net/l/h/r8a35bsfae7s8a/jackhock...
Interesting fact on these three photos is that J. P. Willett appears in all the them...
- In the 1922/23 photo he is a goalie and Captain of the team.
- in the 1923/24 photo he is still the Captain but is now playing defence.
- in the 1924/25 photo he is the Manager of the Inter-Class Senior Hockey team.
- he also played rugby/football for St. F.X.
- he played wing on the main / first St. F. X. Hockey team.
John / Jack Percy Willett
(b. 7 April 1902 in Halifax / Sydney, Nova Scotia - d. ?) - in 1942 he is living in New York City working for the Consolidated Edison Company - LINK to his birth certificate - www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6L8S-FXY?view=in... He moved to the USA on - 21 September 1927 and became a US citizen - 26 October 1939 in New York, N.Y.
His father - John Albert Willett - occupation - sailor / mother - Margaret (nee McDonald) Willett
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company… — E.B. White, ‘Here is New York’
Con Edison plant in Manhattan - © 2016 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
Night falls--but not in the City of Light
Night depicted in the world's largest diorama, which presents New York from Coney Island to Westchester . . . from skyline to subway . . . at the New York World's Fair.
A penciled radiance etches a golden pattern on the mist
the beauty of dawn over New York depicted in the world's largest diorama
5-image panorama taken from Roosevelt Island.
On the far left is the Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge. The brown building with the tall chimney is the Con Ed Plant (the Consolidated Edison Plant), one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the USA. The company provides a wide range of energy-related products and services to its customers through its subsidiaries. The Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., is a regulated utility providing electric, gas and steam service in New York City and Westchester County, New York.
On 28 June 1996, a fire at the plant spewed asbestos throughout the building and sent black smoke through much of the neighbourhood. No one was injured and officials said that no asbestos escaped from the plant. The fire started at 3:30 am and engulfed a 10-story boiler that creates steam to run generators for electricity. It quickly spread to the top floors of the building and was not brought under control until midday. Residents nearby reported hearing a loud explosion, but Con Ed officials said the noise was caused by steam that was released through pressure valves on the roof. The officials believed that the fire may have started in a wood and plastic bin that contained asbestos, but they were not certain what ignited the blaze. The bin, which encased the fourth-floor portion of the boiler, was designed to capture asbestos being stripped from three boilers inside the plant. Tests indicated that no outside contamination occurred and there was no threat to local residents, though fire-fighters leaving the building had to take decontamination showers.
Prolonged exposure to asbestos - a fire retardant used primarily for insulation - poses a risk of cancer and respiratory ailments. Carlos Garcia of the State Labor Department's Division of Safety and Health said that a large amount of asbestos had been spread throughout the plant by the accident and that the cleanup would be difficult and take weeks.
The Consolidated Gas Company building built in 1928 at 14th Street and Irving Place in New York is now known as the Con Edison tower. This headquarters was designed by the same firm that was most famous for Grand Central Terminal, Warren & Wetmore. The 24-story limestone tower, its corners clad with mock quoining: courses of stone raised to create a column of protruding blocks. The tower itself rises 425 feet, ending in a 16-foot-wide clock face repeated on four sides, a recessed loggia of giant columns and then a colossal, crowning bronze lantern. Within the giant lantern were five great beacons, one aiming straight up through a hole in the top and the others coming out the windows.
You would think it is a paradox of sorts because the extravagant electric lighting on its tower was built for a consortium gas compannies. The Consolidated Gas Company was formed in the 1880’s when newly developed electrical companies began angling for lighting contracts. However around 1900 what had started as a gas consortium had begun buying up the competition: electric companies. In 1936 the Consolidated Gas Company changed its name to Consolidated Edison at which time 75 percent of company revenues were from electricity, 4 percent from steam and only 21 percent from gas.
Taxis driving through the steam at the corner of 49th Street and 6th Avenue.
This picture reminds me of a song by Pete Townshend; "Face the face".
The New York City steam system is a district heating system which carries steam from central power stations under the streets of Manhattan to heat, cool, or supply power to high rise buildings and businesses. Some New York businesses and facilities also use the steam for cleaning and disinfection.
The New York Steam Company began providing service in lower Manhattan in 1882. Today, Consolidated Edison operates the largest commercial steam system in the world, now known as Con Edison Steam Operations, providing steam service to nearly 2,000 customers and serving more than 100,000 commercial and residential establishments in Manhattan from the Battery at the southern tip of Manhattan to 96th Street uptown. Roughly 30 billion pounds (14 million tonnes) of steam flow through the system every year. [from Wikipedia]
16 mm, f/5, 0.04 s, 800 ISO, Nikon D80, hand held, Tokina AT-X 124
Featured with permission in the second issue of the Australian Harvest Magazine on Travel.