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Natalie Migliore, WOR reporter, interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now it's sevent ten wars feed on the street with
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliori. Oh, and out of the hot, sweltering, stinky
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  Speaker 1: subway platforms and into these magnificent suitees of iHeart and
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  Speaker 1: wor sevent ten Natalie Migliori, What a transition from swill
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  Speaker 1: to paradise.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, especially with the air conditioning up in here. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: because everybody knows. You go down into the New York
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  Speaker 2: City subway system and sometimes instead of standing on the platform,
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  Speaker 2: you'd rather be on the street because the temperature rises upwards.
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  Speaker 3: Of five to not maybe thirty degrees.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes if you're down there, it's even hotter than just
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  Speaker 2: standing in the direct sun, sometimes suffocating.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, And the city knows.
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  Speaker 2: This, and that's why they're considering a new initiative that
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  Speaker 2: could change all of that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, if it works.
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  Speaker 2: The empty talking about exploring thermal energy network that would
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  Speaker 2: cool the subway platforms, take all the excess heat, store
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  Speaker 2: it underground, and then use it to warm nearby offices
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  Speaker 2: or apartment buildings in the winter.
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  Speaker 3: That's above my pay grade. Okay, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: What about the stink though, Does it absorbed that with
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  Speaker 4: the heat that.
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  Speaker 2: Is something they're gonna have to study, okay, right, and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna get into how much that study is gonna cost.
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  Speaker 2: But what do subway riders suffering on the platform think
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  Speaker 2: about this initial idea.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it sounds good in theory. I'm always like
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  Speaker 5: a little scared of like the plans when it comes
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  Speaker 5: to like the subway stations and things, because sometimes it
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  Speaker 5: doesn't work out, like it kind of like turns into
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  Speaker 5: something we're not thinking it is.
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  Speaker 6: That might be a good idea, just because I think
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  Speaker 6: heating bill even cooling bills in the summer is like
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  Speaker 6: a really big aspect, and I think I'm gonna use
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  Speaker 6: this heat that we're experiencing, we're deducing it and then
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  Speaker 6: putting into the wind surf.
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  Speaker 4: You really, I actually don't know how they're able to
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  Speaker 4: do that, but I like how they're trying to find
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  Speaker 4: new ways to do that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: All right now.
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  Speaker 2: The city would test this out at the Brooklyn Bridge
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  Speaker 2: City Hall and Chamber Street stations, which gets some major
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  Speaker 2: complaints about being some of the hottest platforms in the city.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of New Yorker is selling me, just go
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  Speaker 2: to any platform in the city and you'll know what
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  Speaker 2: they're talking about. Though, a lot of people I talk
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  Speaker 2: to actually holding fans, well they wait on the platform.
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  Speaker 3: One guy's so nice.
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  Speaker 2: As I asked him the question, he would turn the
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  Speaker 2: fan on me, and then when he would go to talk,
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  Speaker 2: he would turn the fan on himself.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so sweet?
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  Speaker 4: Was he flirting with you?
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  Speaker 3: Who knows? I batted my eyes a couple of times.
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  Speaker 3: More fan, you let me more fan? Anything you a
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  Speaker 3: fan blow? Literally my eyelashes were getting in the way.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, it's saying people saying it's about time the city
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  Speaker 2: do something about the unbearable heat.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not just thinking about myself, but also like the
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  Speaker 7: older generation as well. It's food that may you know, have,
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  Speaker 7: like any like underlying conditions where the heat might even
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  Speaker 7: allow them to, you know, just to pass out. So
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  Speaker 7: for me, I would say that that would be incredible
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  Speaker 7: if an opportunity were to be presented for us to
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  Speaker 7: be you know, in a more ventilated train station or platform.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, what an optimist? Yeah, how about we just start
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  Speaker 4: on the train cars themselves on the weekends disaster. I
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  Speaker 4: would estimate on the trains that I've taken in the subway,
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  Speaker 4: one out of every four cars the air conditioning is
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  Speaker 4: not working.
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  Speaker 2: There were some complaints in the conversations I had with people,
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  Speaker 2: But the idea to them is, in the time that
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  Speaker 2: they've been taking these trains, they've realized that there is
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  Speaker 2: more air conditioning than when they first started when they
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  Speaker 2: were kids, they were telling me.
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  Speaker 3: So they've seen the strides in that.
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  Speaker 2: Now they want to somewhat see the platforms tackle Now.
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  Speaker 2: The NTA studying the possibility of this thermal technology. It'll
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  Speaker 2: cost them eight hundred thousand dollars just for the study.
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  Speaker 2: The agency says the money's coming from congestion pricing. We
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  Speaker 2: all know it, leaving some riders wondering where that money
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  Speaker 2: has been going this whole time.
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  Speaker 5: I think how we choose to spend our money is
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  Speaker 5: just a little confusing because it's like tax dollars, and
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  Speaker 5: then it's also like just transit prices in general and
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  Speaker 5: how they're like going up and things like that. So
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  Speaker 5: it is like a curiosity for me, like where money
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  Speaker 5: is really going and what's really being prioritized.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just contemplating on actually where the money's going. If
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  Speaker 7: the trains are exactly the same as they were ten
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  Speaker 7: to fifteen years ago, if the platforms are the same
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  Speaker 7: as well too, so what exactly are they doing with
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  Speaker 7: the money both.
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  Speaker 6: My uncle drives a lot and he always talked about
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  Speaker 6: addressed to be so high. So I think if it
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  Speaker 6: can be put into a more effective use, it would
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  Speaker 6: be really helpful. I think more people might be more
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  Speaker 6: willing to pay for if they actually see like an
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  Speaker 6: effect from the conduction.
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  Speaker 3: I know where it goes.
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  Speaker 4: The acronym MTA money taking Agency goes in and you
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  Speaker 4: never see it actually, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Think it's interesting to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Especially young people who I talk to, want to know
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  Speaker 2: where this money is going, right, and they want to
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  Speaker 2: see the books in a sense. I just got a
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  Speaker 2: text as somebody is listening to my brother says fiftieth
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  Speaker 2: Street is so hot, So everybody says, some guy listed
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  Speaker 2: out forty second, thirty fourth. You would think the main
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  Speaker 2: veins that they would want people to come in.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, this thermal cooling system has been used before across
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  Speaker 6: the world, so it's a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: It might work.