The lights are almost back on in Brooklyn. Con Edison is reporting that just over 2,600 customers in Brooklyn are still without power. The recovery from Sunday’s outages was slowed by thunderstorms and flash flooding Monday night, which Con Edison reports caused roughly 13,000 additional outages. The outages are mostly contained to Flatbush, Canarsie, Flatlands, […]
As 14,000 Brooklyn households continue to grapple with widespread power outages, elected officials are demanding more oversight of electricity provider Con Edison — including state and local investigations, hearings, legislation and even a proposal for government-run power delivery. Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed the Public Service Commission on Sunday evening to investigate service issues in Brooklyn […]
Just as temperatures of 2019’s first major heat wave broke, so did Brooklyn’s electrical infrastructure. More than 30,000 households in southeast Brooklyn lost power Sunday evening, as Con Edison reportedly severed service in order to “protect the integrity of the energy system,” a spokesperson for the company told the Daily News. Con Edison’s outage map […]