Power has been restored at a Fordham apartment building after residents say building management went silent during a two-day outage that left common areas in complete darkness.<\/p>\n
Tenants at 2065 Morris Ave. told News 12 their apartment lights remained on \u2014 but hallways, stairwells and elevators lost power, forcing residents to navigate the building using cellphone flashlights.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s scary, it\u2019s pitch black \u2014 we can\u2019t see.\u201d Said one neighbor. <\/p>\n
Sources tell News 12 the outage happened after building management, Highbridge Community Development corp., failed to pay a Con Edison bill, cutting electricity to common areas. <\/p>\n
Con Edison tells News 12 it works with customers to manage energy bills and says cutting service is a last resort. <\/p>\n
“It is used when a customer has repeatedly failed to pay their energy bills over a prolonged period and has not enrolled in a flexible payment plan to meet their obligation,” a spokesperson for the energy provider said. <\/p>\n
A source confirmed management made a payment Friday evening and service was restored.<\/p>\n
The building is currently facing a partial vacate order from the Department of Buildings, citing 77 open violations including a mice infestation, broken carbon monoxide detectors and mold. <\/p>\n
Highbridge Community Development Corp could not be reached for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power has been restored at a Fordham apartment building after residents say building management went silent during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,46124,15308,9,24,63,8421,344,345,3738,129,131,130,26797],"class_list":{"0":"post-140747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-electric-bills","10":"tag-fordham","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-outage","15":"tag-power-outage","16":"tag-power-outages","17":"tag-taking-action","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news","21":"tag-utility-bills"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}