Mayor Mamdani and MTA Chair Janno Lieber have an idea about how to cool sweaty subway platforms. Unrelenting heat on platforms across New York City’s subway system has long been a problem for straphangers wasting away soporific summer days waiting for delayed trains. Mamdani and the MTA are looking into a potential win-win solution, conducting a feasibility study on a thermal energy network that would offer some relief to commuters, including many city workers, by capturing some of that heat to use in municipal buildings that sit directly above. This would be the first attempt to leverage geothermal methods in […]

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