ColoCrossing: New York City Data Center

The ColoCrossing New York City Data Center (NY1 / Piscataway, NJ) serves Greater NYC and the New York / New Jersey metro area from its location at 101 Possumtown Road, Piscataway Township, NJ. Commissioned in 2010, this 360,000 sq ft facility is designed to support high-performance, low latency colocation and network services to the financial markets, digital enterprises, and cloud providers in the New York region. 

With its large scale and redundant infrastructure, NY1 functions as one of ColoCrossing’s core hubs for east coast colocation and interconnectivity.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• Building footprint: 360,000 sq ft gross facility space 
• Utility power feed: 36.4 MW critical power capacity 
• Backup generator capacity: 32 diesel generators rated at 2.25 MW each 
• UPS / rotary systems: 32 Rotary UPS systems, each 1,300 kW, in N+2 or 100% redundant configuration 
• Cooling infrastructure:
• 16 centrifugal chillers, 1,080 tons each 
• Large chilled water storage tank: 1,000,000 gallon capacity 
• Redundant design: full redundancy in power and cooling subsystems (100% redundant statement in datasheet) 
• Carrier class routing / meet-me room: connectivity handling and cross-connect infrastructure for customer networks 
• Real-time monitoring and facility control via ColoCrossing’s NOC and environmental systems 

🔐 Security & Compliance

• Access controls: biometric + card access security mechanisms for entry to sensitive areas
• Electronic monitoring of both security and environmental systems is in place 
• 24/7 Network Operations Center (NOC) oversight with remote hands / support capabilities 
• Facility-level security: perimeter protection, controlled entry/exit (details typical for data centers but not fully enumerated in the public spec) 
• Uptime guarantee / 100% redundancy policies per ColoCrossing marketing claims

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Carrier-neutral facility with cross-connect / interconnect infrastructure and meet-me room access
• Redundant connections to Constant network providers (primary upstream routing)
• 20 Gbps capacity routing in the meet-me infrastructure (as per NY1 spec sheet) 
• High-density cross-connect support and routing for customer networks 
• 100% uptime network SLA for connectivity performance 

💼 Who It Serves

• Financial services and trading firms needing ultra-low latency access to New York markets
• Enterprises and cloud providers requiring large-scale colocation in the NY metro corridor
• Managed service providers, CDN, and platform operators needing high resilience and connectivity
• Companies needing scalable infrastructure with redundancy and high availability guarantees
• Organizations that require real-time support, remote hands, and network services in a dense metro colocation environment