<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>Nathan Myhrvold</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Friday, October 17, 2014 4:47 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>jeffrey E.</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>odd question</td></tr></table>

Do you know anybody who can expedite putting in a ga= line in Manhattan?

Here is the background.

A friend of mine is a chef in Manhattan, who is in t=e middle of renovating a restaurant. The landlord is convertin= the building from oil heat to natural gas, and was supposed to put in a n=w gas line for the kitchen equipment in the restaurant. However, the landlord didn't put the request in wi=h ConEd when they should have. This was only just discovered, and ap=arently conversions like this are very low priority for ConEd so they are =eing told 4-5 months for the gas line. This may bankrupt my chef friend. The landlord in theory is responsible= and that may help, but the best solution would be to get the gas line put=in. There may be some way to expedite this through ConEd or the myri=d city regulations etc.

If you have an idea, my friend (and I) would be grat=ful...

Nathan