{"id":318656,"date":"2026-08-11T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318656\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:38:25","slug":"nyc-may-turn-subway-station-heat-into-a-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318656\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC May Turn Subway Station Heat Into a Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        New York City is investigating whether its sauna-like subway platforms can do more than make riders sweat. Officials on Monday unveiled an $800,000 study to see if the stifling heat at a station in Lower Manhattan can be captured and reused to warm nearby government buildings in winter\u2014and help cool the station in summer, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/10\/nyregion\/subway-mamdani-mta-heat-geothermal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>. The money for what&#8217;s known as a thermal energy network comes from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and if results look promising, design work could start early next year.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        The idea: Drill more than 500 feet below an unused platform, pull excess heat into a web of pipes, and route it to buildings including City Hall and the Surrogate&#8217;s Courthouse. Similar geothermal systems already operate at St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral and in Europe, but New York would be the first US state to try this with its subway system, per <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/10082026\/nyc-thermal-energy-subway-cooling\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Climate News<\/a>. MTA chief Janno Lieber said even a small temperature drop could shift riders from &#8220;total misery&#8221; to &#8220;merely sweltering,&#8221; and the city comptroller flagged potential savings on utility bills, including the $1.5 million a year spent heating the nearby Manhattan Municipal Building.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; New York City is investigating whether its sauna-like subway platforms can do more than make riders sweat.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2533,9,28687,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-318656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metropolitan-transportation-authority","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-subway","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318656","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=318656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}