NEW YORK CITY ā The savage rains and heavy wind that blasted the city early Thursday left 5,000 customers without power, according to Consolidated E...
NEW YORK -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched an investigation two weeks ago into utility companies' performance before and after Hurricane Sandy left millio...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, reacting to the destruction caused by Superstorm Sandy, penned an op-ed in Thursday's Daily News calling for more prep...
ALBANY, N.Y. -- The utility companies Consolidated Edison and Long Island Power Authority confirmed Wednesday they received subpoenas from the state a...
We now recognize obsession as one of the classic and final stages of grief (storm-wise) as we try to will the Con Edison trucks to head to our neighborhoods.
NEW YORK (AP) ā Consolidated Edison Inc. says the nor'easter knocked out power to another 55,000 customers in New York City and Westchester County.
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Lower Manhattan gave an audible cheer Friday afternoon. After days of living in the dark, the power was back in the East Village, the LES, and Soho. ...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Each day since the hurricane, Sebrina Singley has trudged up a dozen flights of stairs, carrying food and water to her 12th floor ap...
On Saturday, 27-year-old Kate Frasca was manning Con Edisonās Twitter account, @ConEdison, responding to customersā frustrations, questions, prais...
It's no simple matter to bring emergency personnel to restore the power. Unlike human services, such as sheltering and food service, utility restoration requires specially trained, highly skilled workers who must work in hazardous conditions.
Crashing at friendās houses, blessing our gas stoves and plugging into trees, New Yorkers are all wondering -- why does it take the power so long to...
Nearly two days after Hurricane Sandy barreled down on the East Coast knocking down power lines and flooding residential streets, swaths of New York a...
More than 200,000 people in Manhattan were without power on Monday evening, leaving a significant portion of the borough below 39th Street in darkness...
If you live on the East Coast and haven't looked at a hurricane sandy power outage map, now might be a good time to do so. Hurricane Sandy power outag...
Could it be that they see the handwriting on the wall, that they, too, may one day become low-wage earners, as their bargaining rights and benefits are decimated across the country?