NY utility: Manhattan power back on Saturday

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: Power outage seen on October 29, 2012 in Manhattan, New York. / Allison Joyce/Getty Images

NEW YORK 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.

Consolidated Edison gave those timeframes Thursday. Some 575,000 buildings, homes and businesses in the city and Westchester County remained without electricity after Superstorm Sandy.

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The Manhattan outages involve flooded underground lines and a transformer fire at a substation during the storm.

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Con Ed says those problems are more centralized and faster to fix than the 100,000 wind-downed power lines around the city and Westchester County.

The utility has restored power to 335,000 customers so far.

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NYSEG is what it's customers say it is "Lights out- no one home" We have live power lines down on our roads with children walking by everyday. The elderly and young children on neubulizers are told to go to the doctor office or ER. How do we get there if the roads there are covered with live downed power lines. Yesterday, Nov 2 2012 at Home Depot in Brewster- eleven NYSEG trucks were parked and the NYSEG personnel said they were on an hour break. Dusk falls before 6PM. I understand everyone needs a bio break- but eleven trucks for one hour- what happened to staggered times and shorter breaks to service the needs of customers in time of emergencies? Really!!!! Lives are at stake. What are the public officials doing? Senator Ball- do you really want our vote- Town supervior of Brewster- thumbs down to both of you and our present politicians. - Thumbs down for all of you.

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FEMA during hurricane Katrina under republican President Bush and hurricane Sandy under Democrat President Obama shows the difference when you have a president and party that uses government to help people and the republican party that use government to put unqualfied people in charge of it and to send tax dollars to private industry without regard to them doing the job right.

If you want a government that works for you vote Democrat. If you want a government that works for corporations, big oil, big pharma and the super rich vote republican.

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NYSEG is what it's customers say it is "Lights out- no one home" We have live power lines down on our roads with children walking by everyday. The elderly and young children on neubulizers are told to go to the doctor office or ER. How do we get there if the roads there are covered with live downed power lines. Yesterday, Nov 2 2012 at Home Depot in Brewster- eleven NYSEG trucks were parked and the NYSEG personnel said they were on an hour break. Dusk falls before 6PM. I understand everyone needs a bio break- but eleven trucks for one hour- what happened to staggered times and shorter breaks to service the needs of customers in time of emergencies? Really!!!! Lives are at stake. What are the public officials doing? Senator Ball- do you really want our vote- Town supervior of Brewster- thumbs down to both of you and our present politicians. - Thumbs down for all of you.