Showing posts with label ConEd substation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ConEd substation. Show all posts
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Saturday's opening shots
Day 8 of Sophie's being obscured by these oil-processing trucks on Fifth Street just east of Avenue A... part of the never-ending transformer work at the Con Ed substation along Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Bay Crane watch 2024 underway at the Con Ed substation on Avenue A
Con Ed and Bay Crane (and likely others — Five Boroughs Flagging Corp.?) are teaming up today to deliver a new transformer (see photo below) at the Con Ed substation on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street...
(And no — EVG's Stacie Joy is NOT inside the transformer for photos!)
Con Ed has been prepping (oh, have they ever) for months for this moment.
Traffic will likely be stopped along the Avenue between Fourth Street and Sixth Street for part of the transformer liftoff and placement ...
Well-placed sources tell us that the majority of the Bay Craning will take place on the Fifth Street side of the substation...
You can relive last year's transformer delivery right here.
Friday, November 10, 2023
Hey Bay: Con Ed preps for more transformer work at the Avenue A substation
Reporting by Stacie Joy
As of yesterday, the first of the Bay Cranes arrived ... now the work is getting serious. (Emphasis ours.)
As per workers on the scene, this is a two-week process. First, they will remove and disassemble the old transformer on the Fifth Street side — starting today. This will take a while. (Editorializing.) Then, slated for the weekend after Thanksgiving, the new transformer will go in and provide an Instagram-worthy photo extravaganza. (Try to get a window seat at Sophie's or Somtum Der!)
This is the second transformer replacement at the substation this year... the previous job was a five-month-long project.
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Saturday's opening shots
For the second time this week, Con Ed had the graffiti power washed from its substation on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
Thursday, July 6, 2023
When the lights flickered last night
We heard from about three dozen residents (mostly via Instagram messages) about flickering lights last night around 8:50, which prompted concerns of a brownout/blackout.
Some of the residents also reported hearing a pop, or as the Citizen app described it, an explosion...
Several readers reported that a manhole cover had been blown off from the sidewalk on the NW corner of Avenue A and Sixth Street. The FDNY promptly responded, and there weren't any reports of injuries.
The lights also flickered for a second, and cable boxes rebooted.
Most of the people we heard from live in proximity to Avenue A... with the furthest report coming from 14th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.
This morning, a Con Ed crew was working in a manhole on the east side of Avenue A at Sixth Street... just outside the ConEd substation.
We reached out to Con Ed for more about what happened last night... likely related to the summer heat and excess power usage.
Monday, May 22, 2023
Power aid: Transformer work wraps up at the Con Ed substation
After 5-plus months of activity, work is wrapping up at the Con Ed substation along Avenue A and on Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
On Friday, workers packed up the sidewalk office units and (most of the) porta-potties... the 24/7 security personnel hired to watch the adjacent parking spaces were also gone.
The security booth remains on Fifth Street, awkwardly near where Sophie's patrons take cigarette breaks...
Con Ed has been replacing a transformer here, blocking Avenue A for several weekends for some intricate crane theatrics.
Meanwhile, there's word this process will happen again with another transformer delivery this fall. (How many transformers does one substation house?)
Previously on EV Grieve:
Friday, March 17, 2023
Revisiting a transformative Sunday on Avenue A
Photos by Stacie Joy
Last weekend, Con Ed and its contractors — Bay Crane, Five Boroughs Flagging Corp. — closed off parts of Avenue A to install a new transformer at the substation between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
It was an elaborate operation to hoist the 188,000-pound (!!!) transformer and its components, such as a radiator, from flatbeds on Avenue A and across the substation to its position in the back. EVG contributor Stacie Joy donned a hard hat to document the special delivery...
Here's a look at the newly in-place transformer in the alleyway/driveway behind the substation between Fifth Street and Sixth Street (which people always stare into while on a smoke break outside Sophie's) ...
No word yet when Con Ed will wrap up this work. Crews are still working behind the scene. In one development, one of the three porta potties was removed from the Fifth Street side (maybe drop it off at Tompkins?). Meanwhile, there's word this process will happen all over again with another transformer delivery this fall.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Transformer, day 2!
Photo by Stacie Joy
We're on Day 2 with the installation of a new transformer (and assorted pieces) at the Con Ed substation on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
Anyway, Avenue A will remain closed between Fourth Street and Seventh Street for lord knows how long today.
This impacts the M14 bus service. Per the MTA;
M14A-SBS stops on Ave A at E 5th St and Houston St will be closed in both directionsMar 11 - 12, Sat & SunFor service, use the stops on Ave A at E 11th St or Essex St at Delancey St.Eastbound buses will also make requested stops on Ave C, and westbound buses will make requested stops on 1st Ave.
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Con Ed ready to transform your weekend along Avenue A!
We're back on Bay watch along Avenue A.
The Bay Crane team is out in force this morning for what we understand will be the installation of a new transformer at the Con Ed substation on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
Posted signage last weekend tipped us off to this event ... though with some cliffhanging — maybe it will happen March 4-5... or maybe March 11-12! ("We don't really know!" didn't fit on the sign.)
The transformer work here, often 17 workers directing a beeping forklift, started as we welcomed 2023 ...
Could this be the guest of honor?
Anyway! Pull up a chair and umbrella and enjoy.
The sign leaves out some vital info... like Avenue A is closed through traffic from Fourth Street to Seventh Street. (Perhaps that was optional to include, given the 47 flatbed trucks and various cranes parked along A.)
Friday, February 17, 2023
This afternoon in photos of full rotation excavators (TB153fr edition)
Photo by Stacie Joy
Transformer-replacement work continues at the ConEd substation along Avenue A, Fifth Street, and Sixth Street... it's quite a production, as anyone who has stood outside Sophie's (or lives in the immediate area) can attest...
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Saturday's parting shots
Photos by Stacie Joy
The social event of the season is underway on Avenue A at the ConEd substation... where workers are putting in a new transformer here between Fifth Street and Sixth Street ...
...the Avenue is closed between Fourth and Seventh, in case you wondered why B and C were so congested... Anyway! Work continues tomorrow
ConEd sources say the new transformer will arrive on March 5.
Saturday's opening shots
Big rig city today on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street ... as an assortment of cranes and things are employed at the ConEd substation here... where workers have been replacing a transformer in recent weeks...
So this had nothing to do with bus stop construction 😬 ... and Avenue A is closed to through traffic (both lanes) from Fourth Street to Seventh Street through tomorrow night, per signage.
Friday, January 6, 2023
What's happening at the ConEd substation?
Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
There has been a lot of activity this past week around the ConEd substation along Avenue A and on Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
ConEd hired people to block parking spots on both sides of the facility (many of the vehicles had car alarms that liked to go off for no apparent reason, per neighbors).
A ConEd employee told this to EVG contributor Stacie Joy:
"We're replacing a transformer in the station. Since it's so small in there, they set up remote units for the employees. Not all the employees but some of them. We will be here for maybe one to two months, I believe. We will try to keep things quiet! It's a big job."
Friday, August 21, 2015
The new lights on the Con Ed substation
Several residents who live on East Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B have told us about a group of people — anywhere from three to 12 at times – who have been sleeping on the sidewalk along the Con Ed substation this summer… according to residents, they pack up and leave early in the mornings.
One resident said that they have worn out their welcome, though declining to go into details on what this meant exactly. (The reader did say the EMTs have had to pay several visits in the morning.)
So perhaps this is why workers earlier this week installed new lighting on the substation (new lights actually went in all around the structure on A and East Sixth Street)…
There are three new lights in total (only two in the reader-submitted photo below) on the East Fifth Street side …
However, as of Thursday night, only one of the three lights seemed to work on East Fifth Street …
If the lights were put up to deter anyone from sleeping here, then they didn't work. Several people still spent the night under the new light in the middle the past few evenings.
One resident said that they have worn out their welcome, though declining to go into details on what this meant exactly. (The reader did say the EMTs have had to pay several visits in the morning.)
So perhaps this is why workers earlier this week installed new lighting on the substation (new lights actually went in all around the structure on A and East Sixth Street)…
There are three new lights in total (only two in the reader-submitted photo below) on the East Fifth Street side …
However, as of Thursday night, only one of the three lights seemed to work on East Fifth Street …
If the lights were put up to deter anyone from sleeping here, then they didn't work. Several people still spent the night under the new light in the middle the past few evenings.
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