Apr
19
The New York Times explains why the Panama Canal expansion is relevant to NYC: The Panama Canal was more than 2,000 miles away, but very much on the minds of the officials who stood next to a hulking machine on Staten Island on Wednesday to announce a project that involves building a water tunnel to Brooklyn and dredging New York Harbor to make room for deeper cargo ships. The officials, who included Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Patrick J. Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, want New York to be ready to handle them, too. Find out more about the biggest NYC infrastructure project you haven’t heard of. Photo credit: NYC Mayor’s Office on Instagram

The New York Times explains why the Panama Canal expansion is relevant to NYC:

The Panama Canal was more than 2,000 miles away, but very much on the minds of the officials who stood next to a hulking machine on Staten Island on Wednesday to announce a project that involves building a water tunnel to Brooklyn and dredging New York Harbor to make room for deeper cargo ships.

The officials, who included Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Patrick J. Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, want New York to be ready to handle them, too.

Find out more about the biggest NYC infrastructure project you haven’t heard of.

Photo credit: NYC Mayor’s Office on Instagram

Apr
18

Meet Pat, the tunnel-boring machine (TBM) that will be digging a new water tunnel from Staten Island to Brooklyn. 

Plus, check out our infographic on the Staten Island Water Siphon, the biggest NYC infrastructure project you haven’t heard of.

Photo credits: Jiin Wen/NYCEDC

Apr
18
Here’s everything you need to know about the ”Staten Island Siphon Project,” a major new infrastructure project to spur economic development in New York Harbor. Mayor Bloomberg and Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye this morning formally launched the $250 million construction project, which will dig a new water transmission main or “siphon” between Staten Island and Brooklyn—allowing for the removal of two existing tunnels at a shallower depth. This will then enable the dredging of the Anchorage Channel, a process critical for accommodating increased cargo volumes and larger vessels over the next decade. Over the next 10 months, a 110-ton tunnel boring machine measuring 300 feet long will begin drilling a distance of nearly two miles, 100 feet underground. NYCEDC is implementing and managing the project. Find out more info. View the full infographic.

Here’s everything you need to know about the ”Staten Island Siphon Project,” a major new infrastructure project to spur economic development in New York Harbor.

Mayor Bloomberg and Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye this morning formally launched the $250 million construction project, which will dig a new water transmission main or “siphon” between Staten Island and Brooklyn—allowing for the removal of two existing tunnels at a shallower depth. This will then enable the dredging of the Anchorage Channel, a process critical for accommodating increased cargo volumes and larger vessels over the next decade. Over the next 10 months, a 110-ton tunnel boring machine measuring 300 feet long will begin drilling a distance of nearly two miles, 100 feet underground. NYCEDC is implementing and managing the project. Find out more info.

View the full infographic.

Mar
20
Today NYC Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway, NYCDEP Commissioner Carter Strickland and NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky announced the release of a Request for Proposals to design, construct, install and operate solar and wind power facilities at Fresh Kills on Staten Island. Approximately 75 acres of land are available for lease and have the potential to be developed into large-scale facilities that could generate up to 20 megawatts of renewable energy—enough to power roughly 6,000 homes. The project would more than double the City’s current renewable energy capacity. Fostering the market for renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions are two initiatives of PlaNYC, Mayor Bloomberg’s sustainability blueprint for New York City.  Deputy Mayor Holloway: “New York City needs energy to keep it running, and we want that power to be reliable, clean, and affordable. This RFP does all of those things and, if successful, will more than double the renewable energy capacity in the City. Renewable energy is the most sustainable kind, and under Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership we’re maximizing the use of City assets to develop as much capacity as possible.” Fresh Kills spans 2,200 acres on the western shore of Staten Island and served as the City’s principal solid waste landfill until 2001. In 2006, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation began work to develop Freshkills Park, which will incorporate the solar and wind power installations outlined in the Request for Proposals. For more details, view the Request for Proposals. Responses are due on a rolling basis to be reviewed at each submission deadline: May 24, 2012, August 15, 2012, November 15, 2012, and a final submission date of February 15, 2013. Learn more about NYCEDC projects on Staten Island and to boost the green economy.

Today NYC Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway, NYCDEP Commissioner Carter Strickland and NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky announced the release of a Request for Proposals to design, construct, install and operate solar and wind power facilities at Fresh Kills on Staten Island. Approximately 75 acres of land are available for lease and have the potential to be developed into large-scale facilities that could generate up to 20 megawatts of renewable energy—enough to power roughly 6,000 homes. The project would more than double the City’s current renewable energy capacity. Fostering the market for renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions are two initiatives of PlaNYC, Mayor Bloomberg’s sustainability blueprint for New York City. 

Deputy Mayor Holloway:

“New York City needs energy to keep it running, and we want that power to be reliable, clean, and affordable. This RFP does all of those things and, if successful, will more than double the renewable energy capacity in the City. Renewable energy is the most sustainable kind, and under Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership we’re maximizing the use of City assets to develop as much capacity as possible.”

Fresh Kills spans 2,200 acres on the western shore of Staten Island and served as the City’s principal solid waste landfill until 2001. In 2006, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation began work to develop Freshkills Park, which will incorporate the solar and wind power installations outlined in the Request for Proposals.

For more details, view the Request for Proposals. Responses are due on a rolling basis to be reviewed at each submission deadline: May 24, 2012, August 15, 2012, November 15, 2012, and a final submission date of February 15, 2013.

Learn more about NYCEDC projects on Staten Island and to boost the green economy.