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NYC's massive steam network vaporizes two Olympic pools of water per hour

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 13, 2025
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The great East River suspension bridge; connecting the cities of New York & Brooklyn, by Currier & Ives, (1877) Public Domain

Since 1882, Manhattan has been pumping hot steam through a 105-mile network of underground pipes to heat buildings.

According to Jamie Rumbelow writing in Works in Progress:

Steam functions like any other utility: produced centrally…

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