Articles about “utilities”
Left In The Dark: Former Shelter Residents Go Without Gas & Power As Unsuspecting Tenants Move In Next Door
Evelyn Adams has been living without electricity or gas for over a month in a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building where former homeless shelter residents are fighting to remain as tenants. (Scott Heins/Gothamist) The Hersko family is getting...
Con Ed Wants To Raise Your Power Bill
A stock image can't be wrong (Shutterstock) In 2013, Con Ed pinky swore not to raise electricity prices for two years—but that promise was marred when mysterious and unyielding market forces caused a pricing surge last...
Wondering Why Your Con Ed Bill Is So F%cking Huge?
A stock image can't be wrong (Shutterstock) Roommate power bill shakedowns are projected to be especially passive-aggressive this month ("pls leave a check next to yr Kashi cereal bowl mold structure thx") as Con Ed's electricity...
Out-Of-State Utility Worker Helping LIPA Attacked By Angry Man
John Applewhite in the hospital, via MyFoxNY As Governor Cuomo continues to complain about Long Island Power Authority's failure to bring lights back on for customers in a timely manner after Hurricane Sandy, LIPA employees facing...
Cuomo On Sandy Fallout: "They Failed. The Utility Companies Failed"
Governor Andrew Cuomo gave his latest update on Hurricane Sandy relief efforts and yesterday's nor'easter this morning, and he spared no words in describing his disappointment with local utilities: "They failed," Cuomo said during a blistering...
Con Ed May Have Charged You More Last Month Because What Are You Gonna Do About It?
(Flickr User Soopahgrover) Days like these we really kick ourselves for going into blogging instead of owning a giant electricity provider. Today the NY Times finds that Con Ed has sent out bills for July that...
Con Ed To Park51: Pay $1.2 Million In Back Rent Or Get Out
45-47 Park Place (AP) After the developer of the controversial Park51 Islamic community center admitted to making mistakes, and the building peacefully opened its doors for a photo exhibit last month, it appeared that the worst...
CUNY's Solar Map Says The Sun Could Power Half The City
Money raining from the sky! Via Harris Graber's Flickr The sun has many uses, from giving us cool-looking cancer spots to frying those pesky ants beneath our magnifying glasses (plus Solar Hits!) But what if we...
Elsewhere in the ist-a-verse
SFist witnessed a student interrupt Sean Penn's Dennis Kucinich-endorsement speech at San Francisco State University, with sexy results. Sort of. Speaking of sort of sexy, SFist readers demanded to know: at what age does one become...
Exploding TV Causes 4-Alarm Queens Fire
A two-story home in College Point was engulfed by a quickly spreading fire yesterday evening. A 70-year-old woman told WNBC that the television exploded at 22-47 128 Street. She said, "We were in the house, the fire...
Will NYC Black Out Again?
Gothamist would like to thank the New York Times for giving us a mini anxiety attack with an New York Region > New York Utilities Recall '03 Blackout With Fingers Crossed" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/31/nyregion/31power.html">article about last year's blackout...