This giant water tank (250,000 gallons of demineralized water) is attached to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration facility. The plant converts natural gas to 286 megawatts of power for Con Edison electricity, and provides steam to the Navy Yard, ConEd, and NYC's Red Hook Wastewater Treatment Plant.
When I was an undergraduate, I had one art teacher who was pretty terrible; the type of art teacher who wanted to expand your mind, man, but flat-out refused to teach useful techniques and methods. But one assignment she gave us stuck with me. She had us go out and do etchings of manhole covers. The manhole covers in Providence were pretty cool, actually, with Art Deco lightning bolts for the power company and the like. I thought of her when I spotted this personalized Navy Yard manhole cover.
Building 152 drawn from Brooklyn Roasting Company in Building 92. I love that the architects of all these old government-issue buildings still paid attention to architectural elements like this.
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