Con Edison Bill Question

Subject: Con Ed bill

Try comparing your bill with other apartments of the same size, same usage, in your building.
It doesn't sound unreasonable - I have a one-bedroom, am home all day, and pay about that much, in mid-season like this. (Not with a/c, and not in the winter when I use the lights more)
Once, years ago, when I lived in a basement apartment in a brownstone, right after it had been renovated, I found out I was paying more for Con Ed than the landlord's triplex. It turned out I was being charged a "business rate" and had the basement lights, hallway lights and starter for the boiler on my bill. It took three years of fighting with Con Ed and letters to the Public Service Commission before it was fixed. They gave me a credit. This was in the midst of the oil crisis of the 70s and the credit was eaten in in the next two bills!

sounds cheap to me

con ed. bunch of dumb asses. i gave them keys for my building for over 4 months now. they still ring bell and give estimates. i call them. and they ensure me every month. next month they are going to use keys and i'll stop getting estimates.

Armchair Warrior - they do the same thing to me. And once they said that they didn't take an actual reading because they had "lost" the key. "Don't worry," they said, "Your house number is not on the key." I refused to take the reading and just paid the estimated bill, and they found the key a few months later.
I remember correctly from months and months and MONTHS of arguing with ConEdison, it is not actually ConEdison that does the reading. They contract the job to someone else, and that is the person you might have better luck talking to.