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Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city? |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Aug 7 16:57:19 2020 OK, this is a serious question. They were all over the city when I was growing up. I'm not even sure I knew what they were used for. Most people in NYC still cook and heat with natural gas yet you don't see any tanks any more. If they were important how are they getting by without them? What were they used for besides radio traffic reports on the LIE and what do they use now? Living on Long Island I've never seen any in Nassau & Suffolk even though a lot of people use natural gas. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Aug 7 17:30:56 2020, in response to Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Aug 7 16:57:19 2020. I remember a big hubbub about blowing up the big tanks in Greenpoint by the Kosciuszko Bridge back in 2001 and news reports mentioned that they were obsolete but I don’t remember the explanation why, if any. |
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Posted by Joe V on Fri Aug 7 17:33:23 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Aug 7 17:30:56 2020. Do the "Elmhurst" gas tanks near the LIE still exist ? |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Aug 7 17:58:20 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Joe V on Fri Aug 7 17:33:23 2020. No. |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Aug 7 17:59:59 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Aug 7 17:30:56 2020. Due to the increasing prevalence of much more compact gas cylinders, Brooklyn Union Gas began dismantling the gas tanks in 1996. |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 8 00:40:26 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Aug 7 17:30:56 2020. I remember them very well, and when they came down |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Aug 8 04:26:54 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 8 00:40:26 2020. Apparently the Elmhurst tanks were imploded on July 15, 2001 at 0650. |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 8 04:53:17 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Aug 8 04:26:54 2020. Yep. I was invited to go on the gas company property to watch, but it was too early in the morning for me to get up. |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sat Aug 8 08:04:36 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Joe V on Fri Aug 7 17:33:23 2020. No, they were demolished in 1995 or 1996 |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sat Aug 8 08:06:57 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Aug 8 04:26:54 2020. Elmhurst or Greenpoint? |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Aug 8 08:59:43 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 8 00:40:26 2020. The article that Alm posted said they were replaced by compact cylinders but didn't really explain it. They were all over the city, now they're gone, and other places never had them even though they had natural gas. So why were they needed then but not now? What are the compact cylinders? |
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Posted by Train Dude on Sat Aug 8 09:05:24 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Aug 8 08:59:43 2020. I only remember them in 3 locations, Greenpoint, Elmhurst and Coney Island. Where else were they? |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Aug 8 09:13:42 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Train Dude on Sat Aug 8 09:05:24 2020. I remember when visiting relatives on Plum 1rst Street near the Knapp Street exit of the Belt we used to pass one between the Belt & Plum First. I also have seen some in pictures in Manhattan in some of the old NY FB groups. I'm sure there were more. |
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Posted by Train Dude on Sat Aug 8 09:30:01 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Aug 8 09:13:42 2020. There were several in Sunset park between 8th and 9th Ave and 65th and 66th Streets according to Wikipedia. |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 8 15:06:03 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Train Dude on Sat Aug 8 09:30:01 2020. Yep! Down the block by the Dustbowl. Although that's not Sunset Park. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Aug 8 18:23:54 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Train Dude on Sat Aug 8 09:30:01 2020. Near the beginning of this video about the |
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Posted by Train Dude on Sat Aug 8 18:25:00 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Aug 8 18:23:54 2020. Yes but where were they? |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sat Aug 8 19:19:19 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Train Dude on Sat Aug 8 09:05:24 2020. I remember them at the site that became Downstate a Medical Center across from Kings County Hospital. |
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Posted by WayneJay on Sun Aug 9 12:29:19 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 8 00:40:26 2020. Those tanks were quite famous. Anyone who didn't know about this simply needed to listen to a 1010 WINS traffic report, especially during the AM rush hour. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Sun Aug 9 12:47:43 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by WayneJay on Sun Aug 9 12:29:19 2020. The Elmhurst tanks were my favorite because they moved up and down to help regulate pressure, so they never looked exactly the same... |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Aug 9 15:51:37 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by pragmatist on Sun Aug 9 12:47:43 2020. I remember. Right by the LIRR freight track. |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Aug 9 15:54:06 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Aug 9 15:51:37 2020. Yes, Exactly!! |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Aug 9 16:27:01 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Aug 9 15:51:37 2020. I don’t remember them at all. It wasn’t before my time, but we hardly ever needed to take the LIE through there and it was before I could drive. The Greenpoint gas tanks were after I could drive. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Sun Aug 9 16:28:24 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Aug 9 15:51:37 2020. It's a park now... |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Aug 9 16:41:52 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Aug 9 16:27:01 2020. My father used to take us all around the city as kids, so to this day, I know thev4 boroughs like the back of my hand. (S.I., not too much, but I'm learning!) Also know Nassau and western Suffolk pretty good, as well as NJ. Not too familiar with the whole Yonkers, Money Earnin', New Rochelle area. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Aug 9 17:11:58 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sat Aug 8 08:06:57 2020. Maybe that was Greenpoint. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Aug 9 17:13:47 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by Train Dude on Sat Aug 8 18:25:00 2020. There were a couple of tanks in Rockaway Park on the LiLCo property east of the station on B. 116th. |
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Posted by WayneJay on Mon Aug 10 08:52:22 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Aug 9 16:41:52 2020. Same here! That's pretty much how I managed to learn the NYC expressways/parkways at such an early age, then my interest in mass transit allowed me to easily link it all together. Same as you with Staten Island. I did learn a lot of lower Westchester County, but we didn't go to Nassau and Suffolk enough for me to learn it well. |
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Posted by AlM on Mon Aug 10 09:00:41 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Aug 9 16:41:52 2020. Not too familiar with the whole Yonkers, Money Earnin', New Rochelle area.A fair number of portions of Westchester are not particularly prosperous. Much of Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, Port Chester; parts of New Rochelle, Peekskill, and White Plains. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Aug 10 13:33:07 2020, in response to Re: Whatever happened to all the gas tanks in the city?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Aug 9 16:41:52 2020. I only came to be familiar with Brooklyn and Manhattan. But I liked to look at maps, so I came to know all the highways and were all the major interchanges were. |
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