Mamdani Announces Thermal Energy Plan to Convert Brooklyn City Hall Station Summer Heat to Warm Nearby Municipal Buildings Come Winter

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MAMDANI: “I am proud to announce that City Hall’s partnership with the MTA will extend To The Joint Thermal Energy Network Feasibility Study in The Adjacent Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station. Anyone who has stood on a subway platform In August knows our stations do not just get hot, they turn into underground saunas And if you like me don’t know what A summer suit is and choose instead To commute in a wool one let Me tell you it is far from A therapeutic experience During this Summer The Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station becomes one of the hottest stations in New York City This Thermal Energy Network Feasibility Study will explore The possibility Of using The heat that accumulates In this station over Summer to Heat The municipal campus above us Come winter That includes not only David Dinkins Municipality building But also Tweed Courthouse, Surrogates Court and City hall To do so we would capture Heat In boreholes That run 500 600 feet underground “