East River Generating Station
East River Generating Station is a power plant located near the East River at the eastern end of East 14th Street, adjacent to the East Village and Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village neighborhoods in Manhattan, New York City, United States.Photo: Jakubhal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Power station
- Description: Power plant in New York City
- Also known as: “Con Ed East River Station” and “East River Power Plant”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space and Dry Dock Playground.
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is a not-for profit museum founded by the Times Up! Environmental Organization in 2012. It is dedicated to archiving the history of community gardens, squatting, and grassroots environmental activism of the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is situated 1,300 feet southwest of East River Generating Station.
Tompkins Square Park
Park
Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tompkins Square Park is a 10.5-acre public park in the Alphabet City portion of East Village, Manhattan, New York City. The square-shaped park, bounded on the north by East 10th Street, on the east by Avenue B, on the south by East 7th Street, and on the west by Avenue A, is abutted by St.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alphabet City and East Village.
Alphabet City
Neighborhood
Photo: Rtd2101, Public domain.
Alphabet City is a neighborhood located within the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names.
East Village
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The East Village, east of the Village on Manhattan, was traditionally considered part of the Lower East Side, and constitutes the portion north of Houston St, south of 14th St, and east of Broadway.
Kips Bay
Neighborhood
Photo: jim.henderson, GFDL.
Kips Bay, or Kip's Bay, is a neighborhood on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is roughly bounded by 34th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 23rd Street to the south, and Third Avenue to the west.
East River Generating Station
- Categories: gas turbine power station, natural gas-fired power station, and industry
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.72766° or 40° 43′ 40″ northLongitude
-73.97397° or 73° 58′ 26″ westInception
November 1951Operator
Consolidated EdisonOpen location code
87G8P2HG+3COpenStreetMap ID
way 146402114OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q11966457
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Norwegian Bokmål—“East River Generating Station” goes by many names.
- French: “Centrale électrique de l’East River”
- German: “Con Ed East River Generating Station”
- German: “Consolidated Edison East River Generating Station”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “East River kraftverk”
- Norwegian: “East River kraftverk”
- “Con Ed East River Generating Station”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include ConEdison field and StuyFitness.
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