Central Vermont here. A few trees down and limbs blown off. We lost just before going to bed, and woke up to find it had been restored—presumably clearing a tree off the lines.
We have two adult children living in Brooklyn and one in lower Manhattan, without power. All three went uptown to sleep with friends and get a phone and computer connection. When their jobs re-open, my two daughters will have to walk to work across the Brooklyn Bridge, but it’s not too bad a walk and they are both exercisers.
In the meantime, one of my daughters is actually going to the Cape for a few days to grab a vacation until her job is back in place.
Most bizarrely, my son without power or phone in his apartment met with a friend who flew in from France yesterday, and they went to the opera last night. The Metropolitan Opera is uptown, and I presume in good shape. I haven’t heard yet how it went.
my niece has an apartment in lower Manhattan, east side, in the Stuyvesant Town complex; like everyone else between the financial district and 34th street they have been without electricity since monday; her office is above 34th street on the west side; she had dinner with a friend, and like your son then joined a friend at the Metropolitan Opera, before going back to her apartment last night - she just told me they have been told they might have electricity back on at their apartment this weekend; she knows she can come over here to my warm and fully powered home in New Jersey if she needs to, only there are no NJ Transits trains from here to Manhattan yet