Cuomo rips de Blasio amid power outage fallout
Gov. Andrew Cuomo chided Mayor Bill de Blasio for being absent during Saturday’s blackout in Manhattan but wouldn’t say he would remove Hizzoner, as The Post called for in an editorial, leaving that...
View ArticleNew Yorkers share their tales from the Big Apple blackout
During the blackout, strangers comforted neighbors they'd never met, restaurants gave customers meals on the house, and everyday heroes volunteered to direct traffic at busy intersections.
View ArticleCon Ed reverses course, admits power cable fire started blackout
Embattled power company Con Edison completely backtracked Monday — admitting that a power cable caught fire and failed at its West 65th Street station triggering the massive blackout that left a large...
View ArticleHeat wave expected to roast NYC this weekend
The Big Apple will bake this weekend as a heat wave sends the mercury up to temps in the mid-90s, with heat indexes above 100, forecasters predict. Temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday are expected to...
View ArticlePower outages hit Staten Island after fire at Con Ed substation
Power outages hit Staten Island Tuesday evening when a fire erupted at a Con Edison substation — just days after mass outages hit tens of thousands of customers on the West Side of Manhattan, officials...
View Article10,000 New Yorkers lose power at height of Sunday heat
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Thousands of Big Apple residents lost power just as temperatures reached their zenith Sunday afternoon, according to energy providers. Some 10,000 Con Edison...
View ArticleCon Ed taking 30K people off power for repairs, says de Blasio
The move, which was announced in a tweet by Mayor de Blasio, was ultimately done so Con Ed could "make repairs and prevent a bigger outage" following the string of blackouts that were reported earlier...
View ArticleCuomo rips Con Ed over power outages, calls in state police for backup
"We've been through this situation w Con Ed time & again & they should have been better prepared—period," Cuomo tweeted.
View ArticleDe Blasio blasts Con Edison as thousands remain without power
Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted Con Edison Monday as roughly 19,000 customers remained without power — including 13,000 in Brooklyn. A half-day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo ripped the utility giant, saying...
View ArticlePowerless Brooklyn residents furious at Con Ed: ‘They made things worse’
"They [Con Ed] basically told us to go f--k ourselves. Us and everyone on this block," he said.
View ArticleDe Blasio says city ready for more power outages amid severe storms
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday night said the city is prepared for more power outages as severe thunderstorms rolled through the tri-state area. “With severe storms tonight, we are mobilized in case...
View ArticleVenezeula capital plunges into darkness after massive power outage
CARACAS, Venezuela — The lights have gone out across much of Venezuela, snarling traffic in the capital and reviving fears of the blackouts that plunged the country into chaos a few months ago. The...
View ArticleEven Con Ed’s power outage map is down
Con Edison was struggling Tuesday to restore electricity to thousands of Brooklyn residents following thunderstorms that knocked out power in the wake of Sunday’s heat-related blackout. And if that...
View ArticleState Legislature to hold hearing on Con Ed amid NYC blackouts
“The hearing will examine Con Edison’s preparedness and response to the blackouts that have left tens of thousands of New Yorkers in the dark this summer as well as consider remedies to ensure system...
View ArticleCyber-attack ruled out in UK power outage
Neither a cyber-attack nor unpredictable wind power generation were behind a power outage that left nearly one million people in England and Wales in the dark Friday. The outage stranded trains,...
View ArticleZimbabwe’s children suffer from country’s economic crisis
HARARE, Zimbabwe — It is only a few hours since Zimbabwe’s schools closed for month-long August holidays and 13-year-old Tanyaradzwa is already milling outside a bar “doing business,” he says. He hawks...
View ArticleBronx NYCHA complex has been depending on generators for a month
While City Hall demands answers from Con Edison following the summer’s blackouts, residents of a Bronx public housing complex have spent the last month depending on generators to keep their lights on....
View ArticleCorey Johnson: Con Ed should be ‘so f–ing sorry’ for power outages
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson zapped Con Edison on Wednesday, accusing the embattled utility of severely lacking “contrition” over the series of power outages that plagued New Yorkers this summer....
View ArticleCalifornia faces historic power outage due to fire danger
SAN FRANCISCO — Millions of people were poised to lose electricity throughout northern and central California after Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced Tuesday it would shut off power in the...
View ArticleMan dies after California power outage prevents him from getting to oxygen...
A man who relied on an oxygen machine to breathe died 12 minutes after a preventative power cut to his Northern California home — but the local coroner told his incredulous family that the outage did...
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