Storm Downs Trees, Causes Street Flooding In New York
Out on Long Island, Linenhurst was hit hard with dozens of trees downed across just one neighborhood.
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Out on Long Island, Linenhurst was hit hard with dozens of trees downed across just one neighborhood.
Temperatures soared into the 90s again Wednesday, putting incredible demand on the power grid and leaving some sweating in dark rooms.
Spring Creek Towers comprises 46 buildings and 5,881 residential units. Some 15,000 people live there.
Con Edison spokesman Sidney Alvarez says several crews are responding to the affected buildings on 30th Street between 8th and 9th avenues.
Numerous residents of Lyndhurst, New Jersey were expected to be without power until Tuesday, after a truck accidentally pulled down an overhead wire and led four utility poles to snap.
JCP&L said underground electrical fires caused multiple manhole covers to pop off on Sunday.
A raccoon caused an outage Friday evening that cut power to more than 10,000 customers in Jersey City, and shut down much of the service on the PATH Train system for about an hour and a half.
The sprawling Spring Creek Towers apartment complex in East New York, Brooklyn lost power Wednesday evening.
A transformer failure cut power to 1,400 customers Wednesday in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
Power went out Friday afternoon at four buildings in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as a result of what was believed to be a smoking manhole.
A power outage has impacted numerous buildings there, some of which are under construction.
Officials said a faulty transformer caused the outage at the park in Jackson Township.
The railroad has been beefing up its power supply system since a Con Ed feeder cable blew out in Mount Vernon late last September. Service came to a screeching halt on the New Haven line for nearly two weeks.
Microgrids are a means of providing power when storms knock out electricity to entire communities. Microgrids are fueled by natural gas and will provide hubs of power where they're built.
Weekly snowstorms are creating major headaches across the Tri-State area and things are likely to get worse before they get better.
Power was restored to Con Ed customers in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn following a brief outage on Saturday afternoon.
Power has been restored to more than 40,000 New Jersey customers who were left in the dark briefly on the evening of New Year's Eve.
A power outage prompted the evacuation of about 100 guests at a Times Square hotel late Sunday afternoon.
An estimated 12,000 customers were without power in New Jersey Monday afternoon after a transformer blew up.
A transformer exploded in Fort Lee around 6 p.m. As a result, PSE&G said they had to cut power to customers in Fort Lee and Cliffside Park.
Power has been restored to 20,000 customers in northern New Jersey, leaving about 4,000 in the dark, PSE&G said Thursday evening.
The lawsuit was brought by about a million angry customers who were without power for weeks in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.
The NFL huddled with PSE&G Thursday on the plan to supply electricity to MetLife Stadium for Super Bowl XLVIII in February.
Cuomo also called for a moment of silence to be held at 8 p.m., which is when the massive storm surge is estimated to have roared ashore.
Crews were preparing this weekend for the full resumption of service on the Metro-North New Haven Line, nearly two weeks after a power meltdown caused a major service disruption.
