More than 4,60,000 people remained without power in New York yesterday, four days after superstorm Sandy hit the city but electricity was now being quickly restored, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
“Since Thursday to this time, light has come back to about 70,000 more customers across the city,” Bloomberg told a news conference yesterday.
He said about half of those still without power were in Manhattan but added that there should be electricity on most of the island by midnight.
More than 2,50,000 people had power cut on Monday night when Sandy caused an explosion at a substation near the East River.
Con Edison, the New York power company, made automatic telephone calls to some Manhattan customers yesterday saying their electricity has been restored, but called back an hour later saying “this is an important announcement: please disregard our last message.”