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View of Con Ed Smokestacks from Williamsburg Waterfront

Dec 4th, 2007
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View of Con Ed Smokestacks from Williamsburg Waterfront

View of Con Ed Smokestacks from Williamsburg Waterfront
© Frank H. Jump

Posted in: Brooklyn Waterfront, Consolidated Edison, Electric Works, Photography.

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One Comment

  1. Robert Baptista says:
    February 16, 2008 at 2:47 am

    The East River plant is one of seven Con Edison plants: five in Manhattan and one each in Queens and Brooklyn. Coal was the original fuel for Con Edison’s predecessor the New York Edison Company. In the early 1900s Con Edison built a vast storage yard for coal at Shadyside, NJ. At the time Shadyside, now called Edgewater, was a large industrial complex sited along the Hudson River opposite Grant’s Tomb in Manhattan. The coal yard was somewhat remote from the power plants of the company, but New York City land was too expensive and railroad connections were not available at any of the plants. The coal was delivered to the power plants by boats loaded at Shadyside. Oil and natural gas eventually replaced coal to reduce pollution in the city.

    You can read more about the history of Shadyside, NJ at the link:
    http://colorantshistory.org/ShadysideChemInd.html