Blackout Update
The number of Con Ed customers experiencing power outages is now up to 3,500. Here, according to Con Ed spokesman Alfonso Quiroz, is the latest breakdown:
Manhattan - 406 customers Brooklyn - 272 customers Queens - 963 customers Staten Island - 6 customers Westchester - 1431 customers Bronx - 425 customers
Again, "customer" can mean family home or big building -- it doesn't refer to individual people affected.
Mayor Bloomberg has addressed the situation, so far, by making an appeal at a pre-scheduled press conference in the Office of Emergency Management headquarters for people to conserve energy.
And about those subway rumors , here's what Quiroz said:
"The rumors are not based on fact. I plan on riding the subways home to Queens tonight."
No word on when the power's going to come back on.
--Jason Horowitz
awww. sissies cant take hot weather...like mayor bloomberg can..he has "ordered his home air conditioning shut down..."
do we believe his BS?
Has deregulation of the energy industry by Pataki helped customers, as it was argued would happen?