Some NYC outages could linger into mid-November
Some residents in the city’s outer boroughs and northern suburbs may not have electricity until mid-November, though most of Manhattan is expected to be lit back up by the weekend, utility officials said Thursday.
Some 575,000 homes, businesses and buildings in the city and Westchester County remained without electricity as utility Consolidated Edison pumped water out of flooded underground vaults in Manhattan and grappled elsewhere with wind-downed overhead power lines.
While Con Ed has restored power to 335,000 customers since the storm, officials warned that it would be until Nov. 10 or 11 before most of the damage to overhead lines was repaired and a week longer before all of it was fixed. The utility initially said it would take at least a week to fix the damage from the monster storm, which struck Monday night.
The timeframe grew longer after Con Ed got a look at the damage, operations Vice President John Miksad said.