With scorching temperatures hitting the Big Apple this week, City Hall urged New Yorkers to avoid using large appliances and to turn air conditioners to a sweltering 78 degrees.
“It’s hot regardless, AC or not,” Art J., 29, who was waiting for a cooling center near the park to open, added. “It’s really hot so we need it on all day.” ConEd first issued the power-down advice in a July 7 alert, and re-issued that guidance in a message sent to customers late Monday morning. At Herbert Von King Park, Paige M., 28, told The Post the city should instead be “turning off stuff that isn’t being used.” “They don’t need the lights in Times Square,” Candace Lowe, 35, said outside the Wayside Out Tompkins Louis Armstrong Center, a cooling center in Bed Stuy. “He should be turning those off. If not, he should pay our bills then.
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