It\u2019s just what the city needs \u2014 more hot air in government buildings. <\/p>\n
Excess heat from infamously sweltering Lower Manhattan subway platforms soon could be pumped out to both cool the platform for straphangers and warm nearby city buildings, officials revealed Monday.<\/p>\n
A joint study by the city and the MTA will explore installing a thermal energy network \u2014 or, TEN \u2014 at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and Chambers Street subway stations, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and transit honcho Janno Lieber jointly announced.<\/p>\n
A sweaty Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the city and MTA will explore pumping heat from two notoriously stifling subway stations. Gregory P. Mango \/ pool<\/p>\n
TENs are geothermal networks that capture, store and redirect heat, thereby cooling broiling-hot spaces such as the Chambers Street J\/Z stop \u2014 Mamdani said as he visibly sweat during a news conference in the decrepit station.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone who has stood on a subway platform in August knows that our stations do not just get hot \u2014 they turn into underground saunas,\u201d the perpetually besuited mayor said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you, like me, do not know what a summer suit is and choose instead to commute in a wool one, let me tell you, it is far from a therapeutic experience,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n
The \u201cthermal energy network feasibility study\u201d will explore harnessing the heat that builds up at the subway station over the summer to heat government buildings \u2014 including City Hall, the David Dinkins municipal building, Tweed Courthouse and Surrogate\u2019s Court \u2014 come the winter, Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
A contract to conduct a feasibility study first needs to be awarded by the fall, with an eye toward design work in early 2027, according to officials.<\/p>\n
The project would be the first TEN in a US transit system, officials said.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s subways can turn into \u201cunderground saunas\u201d during the summer, Mamdani said. REUTERS<\/p>\n
The Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and Chambers Street stations are the among the \u201csweatiest\u201d in the subway system, Lieber said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe average temperatures last summer peaked at 96 degrees, and every year it\u2019s actually getting hotter because of climate change,\u201d the MTA honcho said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis technology has never been tested before in a transit system here in this country, but it is being used elsewhere in the city, like in St. Patrick\u2019s (Cathedral), because it could be a real win-win.\u201d<\/p>\n
The temperature in the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station averaged about 96 degrees last summer, officials said. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n
The project would include radiant cooling technology to absorb heat from the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall platforms \u2014 and potentially those on Chambers Street as well \u2014 and transfer it through pipes to geothermal boreholes, officials said.<\/p>\n
Those boreholes will be drilled beneath an abandoned Chambers Street platform, an ideal location for testing the technology because it would disrupt passengers, the officials said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would capture heat in boreholes that will run 500 to 600 feet underground, and install a system of circulating pumps and pipes that will use the heat from below our city surface to warm the offices where our municipal workers are hard at work powering this incredible city,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
The project would dovetail with an effort to rehab the infamously dilapidated Chambers Street subway station. Gregory P. Mango \/ pool<\/p>\n
The work at Chambers Street would dovetail with a project announced last week by Gov. Kathy Hochul to modernize the dilapidated, 113-year-old subway station.<\/p>\n
The restoration project \u2014 which will be funded by congestion pricing tolls \u2014 will replace damaged ceramic tiles and mosaics, replace or modify stairs and doors, plug leaks, install new lighting and give the station a fresh coat of paint, among other fixes, officials said. <\/p>\n
Hochul\u2019s office put out a release touting the geothermal project.<\/p>\n
But neither the governor, nor anyone from her office, sweated it out with Mamdani and Lieber for their underground news conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s just what the city needs \u2014 more hot air in government buildings. Excess heat from infamously sweltering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[302,4762,19475,57,141,9,56,63,65,64,1687,58,82],"class_list":["post-317991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-city-hall","tag-energy","tag-green-energy","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-subways","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}