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Calls to Con Edison’s emergency hotline from East Village residents have increased 64 percent in the last week, owing in part to the March 27 gas explosion that collapsed three Second Avenue buildings. A spokesperson for the company told the New York Post that emergency calls have spiked from 1,099 to 1,787, adding, “That’s a very large increase.” After the destruction wrought by last Friday’s explosion, who wouldn’t be obsessively calling the ConEd hotline?
