Renewed call for underground power lines after electric outage darkens Dyker Heights
A pair of downed wires in Dyker Heights left more than 1,200 Con Edison customers without power Thursday night, damaged two cars and prompted a local pol to renew his call for underground wiring in southern Brooklyn.
The power company confirmed that, at around 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 28, overhead electrical wires fell at both 72nd Street and 81st Street at 10th Avenue.
According to Councilmember Justin Brannan, a Democrat representing Dyker, the incident resulted in a massive explosion, accompanied by outages from 80th to 86th Streets and from Seventh to 12th Avenues. Lights also reportedly flickered inside homes as far from the lines as Bay Ridge and Sunset Park.