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AUGUST 22, 2011

Con Ed plans to tear down plant near Brooklyn Bridge; Mayor challenges census counts citing under-counting in outer boroughs

Con Ed is planning to tear down its electric power plant near the Brooklyn Bridge. The plant was at one time the major source of steam heat for much of Manhattan. But since the majority of new buildings do not use steam heat, the need for the plant has diminished. The plant looms largest to residents of the quaint Vinegar Hill neighborhood just beyond its gates, most of whom are delighted at the news of its imminent demise.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that the city is formally challenging the results of the 2010 U.S. Census, citing a large number of housing units mistakenly classified as vacant in Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst neighborhoods and Astoria and Jackson Heights in Queens. These estimates of the city’s population shape how much money it receives through federal aid programs. While recognizing that counting New Yorkers is no easy task, the mayor explained his belief that a “disproportionate concentration of vacancy suggests that some aspect of the census enumeration went awry…” and that the challenge is an appropriate step towards the investigation and correction of the 2010 final count.

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