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Consolidated Edison Inc.

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2011

    "Pippa Butt Lift" Is Hot New Surgery Craze; Post Employees Ordered to Preserve Documents

    ​People are now asking, en masse apparently, for surgery to make their butts look like Pippa Middleton's. A plastic surgeon in Miami told Fox News that "ever since the royal wedding, Pippa Middleton has become the new queen of the booty! She opens the doors to those who did not know you could have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    The Sun is 'Waking Up' in a Crappy Mood

    Two scoops of pain!​Good news! Our sun is about to enter "solar maximum," the time in its life-cycle when it's at its most active. Wait a second, that's bad news. National Geographic reports that within the next couple of years, massive sun storms will possibly knock out GPS systems, blow up p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    The Exotic Jungles of Staten Island Are Full of Pot

    via NY Post​Two Staten Island men have been arrested for cultivating a marijuana farm in their apartment. Cops seized 375 marijuana plants and a safe full of money. Weed growers are often caught due to their extremely high power bills (they need to keep the grow lamps running), but this Island ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Fire at Avenue D Con Edison Plant

    via Robert Sietsema​Firefighters are currently responding to a fire at the Con Edison plant on 15th Street along the East River. One of the plant's transformers caught fire and 12 units have been on the scene for about half an hour. The fire is still ongoing, but no one is believed to be injur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    A Gink's Last Gasp: Stop, You're Killing Me

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 27, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 35 A Gink's Last Gasp: Stop, You're Killing Me By Paul A. Du Brul I am a member of a minority group. I have lung disease. Every morning and night, I sit before a small gray and blue machine with a white pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Morning Links: Roman Polanski Won't Be Extradited; Well May Be Re-Capped Today; Mayor Bloomberg Hearts His iPad

    ​• Switzerland has refused to extradite Roman Polanski to the U.S. over a child sex case (regarding a 13-year-old girl) dating from 1977, and he has been freed from house arrest. "The reason for the decision lies in the fact that it was not possible to exclude with the necessary certainty a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Who's Worse, Con Ed or the MTA?

    ​Yesterday, a tipster sent us a photo from the Q/B elevator platform at Brooklyn's Atlantic/Pacific subway station, where, due to an electrical outage, it "sucks to be wheelchair-bound." He says, "I think the MTA is taking advantage, however, to pass the blame to Con Ed. Shit is always broken ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Mike Bloomberg Backs BP: Our Mayor Defended Tony Hayward?

    ​Granted, New Yorkers are nowhere near the Gulf Shore, and the oil has yet to make its way up to the Hudson, and even if it did, we wouldn't notice, because the Hudson's gross anyway (not that this should stop you from saving it). But we're affected in plenty of different ways by the BP Oil Sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Rainstorm Kills 6, Leaves Thousands Without Power (Maybe Till the End of the Week)

    ​The weekend storm was unpleasant for most of us, but somewhat worse for tens of thousand of New Yorkers who lost their electric service. As of this morning, the Advance reports, 14,560 households in the borough are still blacked out. NY1 tallies 8,400 homes out of service in the Bronx, 5,90 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Utility Outfield: Con Ed To Raze Part of Brooklyn Ballpark Wall After All?

    Photo courtesy of Brian Merlis, Brooklynpix.com​The saga of the last surviving Brooklyn ballpark wall just keeps getting murkier and murkier. The latest news: Con Ed, which since the 1920s has owned the Gowanus property that once was a series of ballparks named Washington Park, tells the Voice ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    Brooklyn wall loses Dodger pedigree, gains Wrigley connection

    Photo courtesy of David Dyte​After all the hoohah over the last surviving remnant of the Brooklyn Dodgers' home before Ebbets Field, it turns out that the wall in question isn't actually so much a Dodgers wall after all. "I can say with absolute certainty that this wall was not part of Washing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2009

    State report: Con Ed partly responsible for death in Queens explosion

    ​A state report says that Con Ed's flawed procedure for responding to gas leaks was responsible for the explosion which killed 40 year old Ghanwatti Boodram in Floral Park. Among other mistakes, the report cites a dispatcher who didn't prioritize the potential emergency over routine calls, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Forecast: Hot

    Congratulations! Area Con Ed users yesterday drew 11,937 megawatt hours of electricity, setting the record for the year. Remember the service number: 1-800-75-CONED. You may need it. It will be hot again today. Cooling centers remain open. The heat advisory remains in effect. Prepare yourself also ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Clip Job: Con Ed nearly ruins 'The Brig'

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJuly 4, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 37Living Theatre Alive & AlightThe Living Theatre is alive and alight this week. There was some question about the latter and consequently the former last week, when Con Edison darkened the theatre for non-payment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Wallaroo Loose Upstate as Animals Reclaim New York

    Yesterday we had a runaway cow in Queens. Now it is reported there's a three-foot-tall wallaroo, a marsupial related to the kangaroo, hopping around in Canastota, New York near the thruway. His name is Bandit, and police say that it escaped from a "traveling petting zoo" three weeks ago. They cautio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    Upper White Trash: Workfare Without Work

    (Editor's note: This dispatch is from a middle-aged, college-educated Manhattan resident who has given the hell up and gone on welfare. Previously at Runnin' Scared, he described the process of signing up for the dole, and the gourmet cuisine he bought with his food stamps.) When we last left our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    After Queens Explosion, Mayor Comforts Con Edison

    Mayor Bloomberg has a priorities list on which you and us rank, oh, somewhere around #67. Much higher up, between "Useless Kennedys" and "The Boys Back at the Racquet and Tennis Club," is Con Edison. After the last blackout, you may recall, Bloomberg defended the power company's appalling slowness t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    Today's Urban Wildlife Issues

    The Times tells us today about feral parrots. Wait -- feral? You mean like the old ladies who owned them said Polly want a cracker? and the parrots said NO Polly don't want a goddamn cracker, bit their faces and flew out the window? No, on closer inspection they mean the Quaker parrots we mentione ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 4, 2009

    CHARGED UP

    A revival of Arthur Arent’s play Power

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    More Flight 1549 Porn

    Here's the highlight reel of a Con Ed surveillance tape of US Airways Flight 1459 going down on the Hudson River. You can see the first moments of the plane in the water, people filing onto the wings (which from this distance looks rather calm and orderly) and rescuers from the New York Waterways ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Adventures in a Crippled Kitchen

    Chapter 6: The Conclusion Twice a week or so, a notice would be slipped under the door from the apartment building's managing agent, bragging that some progress in the no-gas situation was about to occur. It would say something like, "Be in your apartment from noon till 4 pm today, when an ins ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Adventures in a Crippled Kitchen

    Chapter 5: Timing is Everything I had assumed that the gas shut-off would continue for a few days. Boy, was I ever wrong! Days gradually turned into weeks, and then I found myself at the one-month anniversary of the gas leak. I began to be paranoid. A friend who was a corporate chef called to rem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    11 Con Ed Supes Were "On It" (The Take), Arrested

    11 Con Ed supervisors were arrested yesterday for taking kickbacks from a contractor. In exchange for these bribes from an unnamed construction company, Federal prosecutors say, the supervisors approved invoices for work that was never performed or done without any reason except to enrich the conspi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2008

    Adventures in a Crippled Kitchen

    11 Con Ed supervisors were arrested yesterday for taking kickbacks from a contractor. In exchange for these bribes from an unnamed construction company, Federal prosecutors say, the supervisors approved invoices for work that was never performed or done without any reason except to enrich the conspi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Adventures in a Crippled Kitchen

    11 Con Ed supervisors were arrested yesterday for taking kickbacks from a contractor. In exchange for these bribes from an unnamed construction company, Federal prosecutors say, the supervisors approved invoices for work that was never performed or done without any reason except to enrich the conspi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Today's Fun Map: Top Brooklyn Polluters!

    11 Con Ed supervisors were arrested yesterday for taking kickbacks from a contractor. In exchange for these bribes from an unnamed construction company, Federal prosecutors say, the supervisors approved invoices for work that was never performed or done without any reason except to enrich the conspi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2008

    Protest, Bloggers Keep Heat on Willets Point Plan

    11 Con Ed supervisors were arrested yesterday for taking kickbacks from a contractor. In exchange for these bribes from an unnamed construction company, Federal prosecutors say, the supervisors approved invoices for work that was never performed or done without any reason except to enrich the conspi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    Sorry We Killed Your Business. Here's $200.

    11 Con Ed supervisors were arrested yesterday for taking kickbacks from a contractor. In exchange for these bribes from an unnamed construction company, Federal prosecutors say, the supervisors approved invoices for work that was never performed or done without any reason except to enrich the conspi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2008

    TABLOIDED: Political and Sports Battle Royale

    11 Con Ed supervisors were arrested yesterday for taking kickbacks from a contractor. In exchange for these bribes from an unnamed construction company, Federal prosecutors say, the supervisors approved invoices for work that was never performed or done without any reason except to enrich the conspi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2007

    BBQ Chicken: Any Minute Now, Really

    11 Con Ed supervisors were arrested yesterday for taking kickbacks from a contractor. In exchange for these bribes from an unnamed construction company, Federal prosecutors say, the supervisors approved invoices for work that was never performed or done without any reason except to enrich the conspi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2007

    J&L Mall is Back!

    11 Con Ed supervisors were arrested yesterday for taking kickbacks from a contractor. In exchange for these bribes from an unnamed construction company, Federal prosecutors say, the supervisors approved invoices for work that was never performed or done without any reason except to enrich the conspi ... More >>

  • News

    July 31, 2007

    His Name Is Mud

    But despite Con Ed's disasters, its CEO still rakes it in

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2007

    Magnolia, Whatever. J&L Mall? Hell No!

    But despite Con Ed's disasters, its CEO still rakes it in

  • News

    June 26, 2007

    Their Shocking New Neighbor

    East Harlem chokes on Con Ed project

  • News

    August 1, 2006

    Behind the Blackout

    Thanks to deregulation, Queens merely a pawn in the utilities' board game

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2006

    City Wins in Ground Zero Case

    Thanks to deregulation, Queens merely a pawn in the utilities' board game

  • Specials

    August 9, 2005

    Letters

    Thanks to deregulation, Queens merely a pawn in the utilities' board game

  • Dance

    June 15, 2004

    On the Waterfront, a Movement Choir and the City's Ordinary Wonders

    Thanks to deregulation, Queens merely a pawn in the utilities' board game

  • News

    August 26, 2003

    Sun Cell

    How to Recharge in a Blackout

  • NYC Life

    December 17, 2002

    Stocking Up

    The Union Square Holiday Market

  • Film

    October 29, 2002

    Film

    The Union Square Holiday Market

  • News

    October 22, 2002

    Bad Policy, Big Bucks

    How Pataki's Disastrous Energy Plan Fattened His Friends and Campaign Coffers

  • NYC Life

    June 25, 2002

    Studio in Renovated Tenement

    How Pataki's Disastrous Energy Plan Fattened His Friends and Campaign Coffers

  • News

    January 29, 2002

    Prevarication Becomes Electric

    New Awareness of EMF Health Risks Fuels Opposition to Chelsea Substation

  • NYC Life

    November 20, 2001

    Two-Story 19th-Century Backhouse

    New Awareness of EMF Health Risks Fuels Opposition to Chelsea Substation

  • News

    September 18, 2001

    Staff of Life

    New Awareness of EMF Health Risks Fuels Opposition to Chelsea Substation

  • News

    August 29, 2000

    Power to the People

    Lower East Side Residents Oppose Con Ed's Expansion Plan

  • Art

    August 10, 1999

    Wired

    Lower East Side Residents Oppose Con Ed's Expansion Plan

  • News

    July 20, 1999

    Power to the People

    Lower East Side Residents Oppose Con Ed's Expansion Plan

  • News

    July 13, 1999

    Nation

    Lower East Side Residents Oppose Con Ed's Expansion Plan

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