The Elmira Madison Avenue manufactured gas plant (MGP) site is in the City of Elmira, Chemung County. The site is approximately 6 acres in size; is bounded by East Clinton Street, Madison Avenue, and East Fifth Street; and occupies most of a developed city block. The MGP operated for approximately 80 years (circa 1865 to 1947) using coal, oil and water to produce gas.
After 1947, NYSEG used the entire site as a service center for its electric and natural gas crews. NYSEG ceased active use of the site in 1975 when it moved operations to their current service center located in Horseheads.
The western portion of the site, including all the remaining buildings, was sold to I.D. Booth, Inc. in 1977. I.D. Booth, an industrial supply wholesaler, used several of the old buildings as warehouses, augmenting their larger operations across Madison Avenue to the west. NYSEG retained ownership of the eastern portion of the site where it maintains an electrical substation and a storage yard.
In 2003, NYSEG re-acquired the MGP portion of the property owned by I.D. Booth and transferred ownership of the storage yard (to the west of the substation) to I.D. Booth. NYSEG currently owns the former MGP property, with the exception of a storage yard located on the northern portion of the site adjacent to East Fifth Street. NYSEG maintains an electrical substation on the property east of the storage yard.
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