Hundreds Of Con Ed Customers Without Power On Staten Island

Hundreds Of Con Ed Customers Without Power On Staten Island

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — More than 1,000 Con Edison customers lost power on Staten Island on Tuesday evening.

Shortly before 7 p.m., Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that 2,000 customers had been affected by the outage. Initially, de Blasio said service was expected to be restored by 7:30 p.m., but the power company later said the outage could last through the night.

Con Edison is reporting those remaining could be without power into overnight hours.

City agencies are in close contact with the utility to make sure restoration happens as quickly as possible.

Keep an eye on @NotifyNYC for further updates throughout the evening. https://t.co/3BBoZ2TwgI

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) July 16, 2019

Councilman Steven Matteo said a smoking circuit breaker caused the outage.

Midland Beach Area Power Outage Update:

Con Edison is on scene conducting repairs. The cause of the outage is due to a circuit breaker smoking.

The substation has a redundancy alternate substation which kicks in once the host substation goes down.

— Steven Matteo (@StevenMatteo) July 16, 2019

As of 7:54 p.m., Con Ed‘s website said about 2,100 customers were without power with an estimated restoration time of 2 a.m. Wednesday.

• Click here to view current Con Ed outages.

Matteo said a generator is being brought on site to assist with getting power back sooner.

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July 17, 2019 at 05:30AM