Dive Summary:
- Consolidated Edison (ConEd) reported a timeframe for electricity recovery across the state of New York; most Manhattan residents will have their power back on Saturday, while New York City’s other boroughs and suburbs might be without power for another week.
- At the moment, about 575,000 buildings, homes, and businesses in the city and Westchester County remain without electricity.
- ConEd says Manhattan’s outages involve flooded underground lines, which are faster to fix than the 100,000 wind-downed power lines around the city and in Westchester.
From the article:
Most Manhattan residents without power will have it back Saturday. But many outages in New York City's other boroughs and northern suburbs could last another week -- and some as much as two weeks. ...
