Celebrate the final day of Lower East Side History Month with a look at an often-overlooked aspect of the area’s history and life today. Some of the sites and themes covered along the way include the Con Edison East 14th Steam Plant and the steam system in general; the homesteading/squatting saga of old PS 64/Charas and 519 East 11th St, the home of the first wind turbine in New York; and how the City is applying the painful lessons that the flooding during Sandy taught.

Cullen Brown is a licensed New York City guide who translates his passion for energy, engineering, and the environment into tours that bring you face-to-face with the infrastructure that makes our lives in NYC possible. His tours focus on electricity, water, steam, transit, and the people who built and maintain those very systems.
Originally from Buffalo, New York, Cullen was and is inspired by the natural and industrial history of Niagara Falls, as well as his historic preservationist parents, to learn and share knowledge about our ecological and built environment.