Ravenswood Generating Station
Ravenswood Generating Station is a 2,480 megawatt power plant in Long Island City in Queens, New York City, owned and operated by LS Power/Helix Energy Solutions Group.Photo: Harald Kliems, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Roosevelt Island Bridge and Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.
Roosevelt Island Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
The Roosevelt Island Bridge is a tower drive vertical lift bridge that connects Roosevelt Island in Manhattan to Astoria in Queens, crossing the East Channel of the East River. Roosevelt Island Bridge is situated 1,200 feet north of Ravenswood Generating Station.
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Queensboro Bridge, officially the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City. Completed in 1909, it connects the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens with the East Midtown and Upper East Side neighborhoods in Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island. Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge is situated 2,300 feet southwest of Ravenswood Generating Station.
Blackwell House
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Blackwell House is a historic house on Roosevelt Island in New York City. The house's name comes from Jacob Blackwell, who built the house in 1796. He was the great-grandson of Robert Blackwell, who in 1686 took ownership of what was then known as Manning's Island and subsequently became the island's new namesake. Blackwell House is situated 1,500 feet west of Ravenswood Generating Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lenox Hill and Long Island City and Astoria.
Lenox Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lenox Hill is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.
Long Island City and Astoria
Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to the south.
Astoria
Neighborhood
Photo: Dinker022089, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the southeast, and Woodside and East Elmhurst to the east.
Ravenswood Generating Station
- Type: Power station
- Description: Fuel oil and natural gas power station in Long Island City in Queens, New York, United States
- Categories: gas turbine power station, oil-fired power station, natural gas-fired power station, and industry
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.76001° or 40° 45′ 36″ northLongitude
-73.94557° or 73° 56′ 44″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Inception
February 1963Operator
LS Power/Helix Ravenswood, LLCOpen location code
87G8Q363+2QOpenStreetMap ID
way 240515268OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q12066941
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Norwegian to Norwegian Bokmål—“Ravenswood Generating Station” goes by many names.
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ravenswood kraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Ravenswood kraftverk”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Capobianco Field and Spirit Playground.
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