When New York City’s massive, visible-from-space Fresh Kills landfill closed in 2001, the city began trucking its garbage—around 14 million tons annually—to other states. Former Mayor Bloomberg tried ...

Just prior to New York State going on PAUSE for coronavirus, we went to visit Roosevelt Island‘s amazing pneumatic tube trash system. Below the streets, residential garbage is whisked underground and ...

New Yorkers have a history of experimenting with pneumatic tubes—both for mail delivery (seen above) and public transit—but only one version ever really stuck: An automated vacuum trash collection ...

New York City is known for many goods things and also some bad ones, including the pungent summertime stench emanating from curbside trash bags gnawed through by rats. Salvation often only arrives ...

Elon Musk is not the first inventor to put his hopes into vacuums. Respect to the Hyperloop, but pneumatic tubes have a centuries-long history -- in both human infrastructure and in the minds of ...

The inaugural episode of The Untapped New York Podcast was a dive into my favorite subject of all time: New York City’s pneumatic tube mail system. One of the highlights of this exploration was ...

There was a time when Chicagoans imagined a future filled with pneumatic tubes. Using the power of suction, these miraculous devices were going to transport mail—and even people—around the city and ...

Power-brokers are laying down more and more of their cards as the deadline approaches for a decision about whether or not Sidewalk Labs will be moving forward with its controversial, high-tech and ...

Dublin, March 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Pneumatic Tube System Market (2021-2026) by System Type, System Configuration Type, Function Type, End-User Type, Geography, Competitive Analysis ...