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Empire City Subway
Empire City Subway is an American company in New York City which is responsible for maintaining underground conduits in Manhattan and The Bronx, and the manholes by which those conduits are accessed. History and operations The company was formed in 1891 as part of a plan for common utility ducts to consolidate all utilities underground. Incompatibility among the utilities limited the range of utilities that could share their ducts, so the company now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon New York Telephone under a franchise from the city. In addition to Verizon, the company provides service to cable television and other telecommunications companies. Business model Empire City Subway makes its money by renting manhole space and conduits to New York City DoITT Telecommunications Franchisee's. Although wholly owned by Verizon, Verizon is their largest tenant in the Empire City Subway system. They have construction crews on staff that perform excavation for condu ...
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New York Telephone
The New York Telephone Company (NYTel) was organized in 1896, taking over the New York City operations of the American Bell Telephone Company. Predecessor companies The Telephone Company of New York was formed under franchise in 1876. The principals were Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne Roosevelt. Its purpose was to rent telephone instruments to users, who were expected to provide wires to connect them, for example from factory to office. Such connections already existed for private telegraphs, and the new invention promised to save the cost of hiring a private telegraph operator. Manufacturers of steel wire for the Brooklyn Bridge then under construction were especially prominent among the customers under this scheme, using their own product. Western Union subsidiaries, including Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph, Gold and Stock Telegraph, and American Speaking Telephone, based their New York and San Francisco operations on the telephone exchange principle and thus were larger and ...
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Public Utility
A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to statewide government monopolies. Public utilities are meant to supply goods/services that are considered essential; water, gas, electricity, telephone, and other communication systems represent much of the public utility market. The transmission lines used in the transportation of electricity, or natural gas pipelines, have natural monopoly characteristics. If the infrastructure already exists in a given area, minimal benefit is gained through competing. In other words, these industries are characterized by ''economies of scale'' in production. There are many different types of public utilities. Some, especially large companies, offer multiple products, such as electricity and nat ...
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Companies Based In New York City
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is generating profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duty according to the publicly declared incorporation, or published policy. When a company closes, it may need to be liquidated to avoid further legal obligations. Companies may associate and collectively register themselves as new companies; the resulting entities are often known as corporate groups. Meanings and definitions A company can be defined as an "artific ...
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American Companies Established In 1891
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference The American Athletic Conference (The American or AAC) is an American collegiate athletic conference, featuring 11 member universities and five affiliate member universities that compete in ...
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1891 Establishments In New York (state)
Events January–March * January 1 ** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. * January 2 – A. L. Drummond of New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service. * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. * January 5 **The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. **A fight between the United States and Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. ** Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. **A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. * January 6 – Encounters continue, between strikers and the authorities at Glasgow. * January 7 ** General Miles' forces ...
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List Of Companies Based In New York City
This is a list of notable corporations headquartered, current and historically, in New York City, New York. The table is arranged alphabetically by company, but can also be sorted by industry. See also * List of New York companies * Tech companies in New York City References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Companies Based In New York City * New York City Companies A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared ...
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List Of New York City Manhole Cover Abbreviations
This is a list of manhole cover markings found in New York City. Markings * Bell System * BECo = Consolidated Edison, Brooklyn Edison Company * BHRR = Brooklyn Heights Railroad * BMT = Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation * BPB = Borough President Brooklyn * BPM = Borough President Manhattan * BQT = Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation * BRT = Brooklyn Rapid Transit * BS = Bureau of Sewers * BSBQ = Bureau of Sewers, Borough of Queens * BSBQ = Borough Superintendent of the Borough of Queens * CIBRR = Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad * Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown, Citizens Water Supply Co. of Newtown * ConEdison = Consolidated Edison * Con Edison Co. = Consolidated Edison * Conrail = Consolidated Rail Corporation * CT&ES Co. = Consolidated Edison, Consolidated Telegraph & Electrical Subway Company * CWSCo. = Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown * DCW = Brooklyn Department of City Works * DEP = New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Department ...
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New York City Manhole Cover Abbreviations
This is a list of manhole cover markings found in New York City. Markings * Bell System * BECo = Brooklyn Edison Company * BHRR = Brooklyn Heights Railroad * BMT = Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation * BPB = Borough President Brooklyn * BPM = Borough President Manhattan * BQT = Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation * BRT = Brooklyn Rapid Transit * BS = Bureau of Sewers * BSBQ = Bureau of Sewers, Borough of Queens * BSBQ = Borough Superintendent of the Borough of Queens * CIBRR = Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad * Citizens Water Supply Co. of Newtown * ConEdison = Consolidated Edison * Con Edison Co. = Consolidated Edison * Conrail = Consolidated Rail Corporation * CT&ES Co. = Consolidated Telegraph & Electrical Subway Company * CWSCo. = Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown * DCW = Brooklyn Department of City Works * DEP = Department of Environmental Protection * DPW = Department of Public Works * DWS = Department of Water Supply * ECS Co. LIM = Empire City Su ...
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New York City Department Of Information Technology And Telecommunications
The New York City Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI), formerly known as the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT), is the department of the government of New York City that "over awthe City's use of existing and emerging technologies in government operations, and its delivery of services to the public". Although the agency's primary purpose is to facilitate the technology needs of other New York City agencies, DoITT was best known by city residents for its 3-1-1 "citizens' hotline," established in 2003. Its regulations were compiled in title 67 of the '' New York City Rules''. In 2022, DoITT was renamed the Office of Technology and Innovation as part of a process that consolidated the former Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (NYC CTO), NYC Cyber Command (NYC3), the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA), the Mayor's Office of Information Privacy (MOIP), and staff from the office of the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO ...
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Common Utility Duct
A utility tunnel, utility corridor, or utilidor is a passage built underground or above ground to carry utility lines such as electricity, steam, water supply pipes, and sewer pipes. Communications utilities like fiber optics, cable television, and telephone cables are also sometimes carried. One may also be referred to as a services tunnel, services trench, services vault, or cable vault. Smaller cable containment is often referred to as a cable duct or underground conduit. Direct-buried cable is a major alternative to ducts or tunnels. Usage Utility tunnels are common in very cold climates where direct burial below the frost line is not feasible (such as in Alaska, where the frost line is often more than below the surface, which is frozen year round). They are also built in places where the water table is too high to bury water and sewer mains, and where utility poles would be too unsightly or pose a danger (like in earthquake prone Tokyo). Tunnels are also built to avoid the ...
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Verizon Building
The Verizon Building (also known as 100 Barclay, the Barclay–Vesey Building, and the New York Telephone Company Building) is an office and residential building at 140 West Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The 32-story building was designed in the Art Deco style by Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker, and was Walker's first major commission as well as one of the first Art Deco skyscrapers. It occupies the entire block bounded by West Street to the west, Barclay Street to the north, Vesey Street to the south, and Washington Street to the east, abutting the World Trade Center. The Verizon Building was constructed from 1923 to 1927 as the Barclay–Vesey Building. It served as the longtime corporate headquarters of New York Telephone and its successor Verizon Communications. The building, being adjacent to the original World Trade Center to the south and 7 World Trade Center to the east, experienced major damage in the September 11 attacks following the col ...
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Empire City Subway Truck Pleasant Av Jeh
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. Within an empire, there is non-equivalence between different populations who have different sets of rights and are governed differently. Narrowly defined, an empire is a sovereign state whose head of state is an emperor; but not all states with aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities are called empires or ruled by an emperor; nor have all self-described empires been accepted as such by contemporaries and historians (the Central African Empire, and some Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in early England being examples). There have been "ancient and modern, centralized and decentralized, ultra-brutal and relatively benign" Empires. An important distinction has been between land empires mad ...
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