CON ED: EXCUSES ARE USELESS. WE NEED POWER!

NEWS FROM
ASSEMBLYMAN DOV HIKIND

June 22, 2012

Contact: Yehudah Meth                                                       For Immediate Release

718-853-9616 (office)
 

HIKIND TAKES CON-ED TO TASK FOR BORO PARK OUTAGES

Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) is furious about the double-talk he’s received from Con Ed regarding the outages in Borough Park. Frightened constituents began calling Con Ed last night regarding power failures and the Assemblyman spent the evening on the phone trying to get straight answers.

“I spoke with half-a-dozen people, none of whom seemed to have communicated with anyone else on their own team,” said the Assemblyman. “Everyone had a different answer regarding what to expect but by this morning power was still out and I heard new stories from a half dozen others. No one seems capable of giving a straight answer.

“If a dry cleaner or caterer or any other business in our community functioned this way, they’d be long out of business. Con Ed takes our money and has a responsibility to us. Our community doesn’t want to hear spin—we want to see results. The summer just started two days ago—is this what we should expect for the next 12 weeks?”

Ateres Golda, a catering hall at 1362 50^th , was forced—for the second time in three weeks—to rent a $10,000 generator at their own expense or else the wedding they were catering would have been cancelled. Continuants who could afford to do so left town and slept at hotels; others suffered without power.

Assemblyman Hikind spent the morning speaking to community members and Con Ed workers on 50^th Street, Borough Park’s main thoroughfare, which is closed between 13^th and 15^th Avenues. “Management says one thing—or actually six things—but the workers say another,” said the Assemblyman. “Con Ed workers don’t expect this problem to be resolved as quickly as management has promised. It’s bad enough that we’re suffering like this, but at the very least give us straight answers.”