[CPEO-BIF] Brooklyn (NY) power plant demolition

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Williamsburg
When Spring Cleaning Includes a Power Plant

By JAKE MOONEY
New York Times (NY)
May 4, 2008

THE gigantic old power plant at 500 Kent Avenue, next to the Brooklyn 
Navy Yard in South Williamsburg, has stood on the waterfront since 1905, 
generating power for the trains and streetcars of the Brooklyn Rapid 
Transit Company.

The plant operated through the borough’s heyday as a leading 
manufacturing center. And though it closed in 1999 after 49 years as a 
Con Edison plant, the building remained standing as some of its 
industrial neighbors were designated landmarks and earmarked for 
conversion into housing, like part of the former Domino sugar factory. 
Others, such as the old Schaefer Beer factory, were demolished to make 
way for new construction.

Now, the power station’s time may have come. A week and a half ago, Con 
Edison representatives confirmed neighborhood suspicions that the 
building was being torn down, though Bob McGee, a company spokesman, 
said no future use had been determined for the site, including whether 
to sell it.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/nyregion/thecity/04cone.html?_r=1&ref=thecity&oref=slogin

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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