CON ED ECONOMICS

In a move consumer advocates say will hurt immigrants and seniors, Con Edison is preparing to close its last four service centers that accept last-minute cash payments, primarily from the company’s poorest customers. And in doing this, they are also helping grow an at-times unfriendly business: check cashers.

TAKING FLIGHT

Seven months after Guyana’s only airline went under, two sisters in Richmond Hill have started an airline that flies exclusively to their homeland, and they insist their company’s ethnic focus will propel it above the industry’s financial woes.