Thousands of Brooklynites are in the dark and without air conditioning Friday night/ Saturday morning as power outages spread across Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. In the Con Edison map above from 1 a.m. Saturday, the clustered triangles represent multiple power outages.
On top of the outages, Saturday at noon Con Ed issued an update of the areas in New York City where voltage is being reduced due to problems on electrical equipment.
The following neighborhoods are experiencing brownouts:
In Brooklyn and Queens: Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Midwood, Flatbush and East Flatbush, Williamsburg, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick. Ocean Hill, Brownsville, Flatbush, and Prospect Heights, Corona, Elmhurst, Fresh Meadows, Jamaica Estates, Oakland Gardens, Hollis Hills, Hillcrest, Broad Channel, Howard Beach, Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Kew Gardens, and Kew Gardens Hills.
In Staten Island: New Brighton, St. George, Tompkinsville, Brighton Heights, Ward Hill, Stapleton, Grymes Hill, Clifton, Silver Lake, Rosebank, Ft. Wadsworth, Grasmere, Concord, Arrochar, South Beach, Ocean Breeze, Midland Beach, Grant City, New Dorp, and Dongan Hills.
In Manhattan: Central and East Harlem.
In Westchester County: parts of Yonkers, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson and Greenburgh. Also Peekskill, Buchanan, Verplank, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt, and parts of Ossining, Yorktown, and Briarcliff Manor. Also Mt. Vernon, parts of Bronxville, New Rochelle, North Pelham, Pelham, and Pelham Manor.
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Blackouts, Brownouts Across Brooklyn UPDATED for Saturday, July 23
Friday, July 22, 2011
Electrical Explosion On Henry Street, Brooklyn Heights Thursday Night
An underground high-voltage electrical feeder exploded at roughly 7:15 p.m. last night, in front of 60 Henry Street just off Cranberry Street in Brooklyn Heights. There was a huge blast witnesses said, and smoke shot up through a grate in the street.
FDNY responded immediately (the firehouse is one block away) and blocked the grate off with caution tape.
Bits of black stuff had blown out of the grate, which remained smoking.
Firemen went into the surrounding businesses and asked them about their wiring.
Con Ed showed up after about 20 minutes and took over the situation. A crew worked on the problem through the night.
Scattered power outages took place all night, including a manhole explosion after midnight on Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights which took out an entire block. More on these outages here.
Photos by MK Metz
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Power Outages Scattered Over Brooklyn, Queens and S.I., July 21 and 22, 2011
In the middle of this gawd-awful heat wave, scattered power outages have been taking place across Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
In Brooklyn Heights between on Hicks Street between Clark Love Lane 474 customers lost their power in the middle of the night when a manhole blew. Con Ed hopes to have it fixed by noon.
UPDATE: The Brooklyn Eagle has more details about this outage.
UPDATE 2: Blackouts and brownouts affect thousands in Brooklyn and Queens late Friday night/ early Saturday morning. See here.
Also in the Heights, a high-voltage feeder line blew sky high on Henry Street near Cranberry. Photos here.
In Carroll Gardens, 182 customers on Carroll Street near Hicks lost power Thursday night in what Con Ed calls a partial outage. They estimate they will have their power up and working by 10 a.m. Friday.
Six block south of that, on Nelson Street in Red Hook, Con Ed reports a "manhole problem."
About 150 customers in Bay Ridge/ Dyker Heights were without power Thursday night. Con Ed hopes to have them back up by 6 a.m. Friday. There were also scattered outages throughout Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and Brownsville last night which should be repaired early Friday.
36 customers in Greenpoint, on Dobbin Street near Meserole Ave. lost their power due to a manhole problem.
In Queens near Eliot Ave., more than 2,500 customers were without power in what Con Ed says is a partial outage. They hope to have the problem cleared up early this morning. In Astoria near Steinway Street 5 customers lost power due to "burning wires."
Besides smaller scattered outages throughout Queens, 57 customers in North Beach lost power in an "area outage," as did 33 customers in the Haberman area. Con-Ed hopes to have these problems fixed by early morning.
Roughly 70 customers were without power in Staten Island last night as well. Con Ed said the problem should be fixed by early morning
Original report 1:30 a.m. Updated throughout the day.
Photo by MK Metz
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Swimming, Kayaking In Parts of Brooklyn and S.I. Cancelled Because of Harlem Sewage Plant Fire
Because of the fire at the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant Wednesday, untreated wastewater (raw sewage) is being directly discharged into the Hudson River -- roughly 100 million gallons a day.
The New York City Health Department has issued beach pollution / no swimming advisories to take effect Friday, July 22 through Monday, July 25:
- South Beach in Staten Island
- Midland Beach in Staten Island
- Cedar Grove Beach in Staten Island
- Sea Gate in Brooklyn
Additionally, the Hudson River, the East River from the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge to Verrazano Bridge (basically the entire East River), the Harlem River and the Kill Van Kull to the Goethals Bridge will not be fit for recreational activities such as swimming, canoeing, kayaking, windsurfing or any other water activity that would entail possible direct contact now through at least Sunday.
This means that kayaking scheduled at Brooklyn Bridge Park this weekend is cancelled.
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152 Degrees in Cadman Plaza Park Astroturf
Looks pretty, almost like grass, but it will literally burn your skin off.
The Brooklyn Eagle stuck a meat thermometer into the synthetic turf in Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn Heights / Downtown Brooklyn yesterday and found it was 152 degrees -- hot enough to broil a steak medium rare.
More at the Eagle.
Above photo by MK Metz
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Here's One Scary Brooklyn Map
You might think that this map shows the location of every ginkgo tree or Starbucks in the city, but sadly, this is in reality a map of registered sex offenders in our area. (The little white boxes with crosses are parks and playgrounds, the colored boxes are sex offenders.)
This map is interactive on the site of Family Watchdog. Clicking on a colored square will give you the name, address and often a photo of your friendly neighborhood sex offender.
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No Money for Promised Williamsburg Park; Busy Barclays; and More Brooklyn Briefs
- Oops, there's no money for the Bushwick Inlet Park on the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront that Bloomberg promised the locals to make up for being screwed. Gothamist
- Barclays Center will be the site of 200 sporting and entertainment events a year. That's four a week. About.com
- Police release the name of the drunk driver who ran down a beloved Fort Greene resident. The Local
- That rotten egg smell yesterday (all over Brooklyn), explained. Gothamist
- After city raid, 475 Kent "ain't gonna be condos any time soon." TRD
- He said she said: Brooklyn bike lane case continues on August 3. Transportation Nation and Streetsblog
- Why you need to see Sweet Smell of Success tonight in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Gothamist
- The Center for Science in the Public Interest has released its annual Xtreme Eating Awards. Morton's Steak House gets a mention. CSPI (pdf)
- Apple bids goodbye to the familiar white MacBook. Reuters
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Large Dome of Hell Will Hit Brooklyn at Noon Thursday
Just stay inside tomorrow and Friday! The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning and warns that "a large dome of high pressure across the central United States will gradually build east and spread an increasingly hot and humid air mass across the region starting tomorrow afternoon."
From NOAA
There will be a "PROLONGED PERIOD OF HIGH HEAT AND HUMIDITY STARTING THURSDAY."
* HAZARDS...EXCESSIVE HEAT WITH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES OF 95 TO 100 DEGREES BOTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.
* HEAT INDEX VALUES...UP TO 108.
* TIMING...THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY FROM NOON UNTIL 8 PM EACH DAY.
* IMPACTS...POTENTIAL IMPACTS INCLUDE HEAT DISORDERS FOR CHILDREN...THE ELDERLY AND PEOPLE PERFORMING PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES DURING THE PEAK HEATING OF THE DAY.
More here.
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TrustoCorp Hacks Brooklyn Street Signs and It's a Big Improvement
Zoot Patrol discovered that TrustoCorp has been hard at work on the street signs of Brooklyn. Signs marking "Rapture Zones" mix with the "Things Get Better" message for some uplifting moments.
Signs Here.
Below, ABC News does a feature on TrustCorp"
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Gateway II Flap; Gage & Tollner Goes Glitzy; and More Brooklyn Briefs
- Brooklyn Assemblywoman Inez Barron wants to know why Related Companies is paying only $14.5 million for the land for Gateway II, when it had originally agreed to pay $32.5 million. Brooklyn Eagle
- How low can you go? Now the historic Gage & Tollner space is a discount jewelry store. Gothamist
- Every time we go to IKEA we spend $100. This weekend, spend that $100 and eat for free. Brokelyn
- "Bullets were literally whizzing down the street" in Vinegar Hill. (Or was it firecrackers?) Dumbo NYC
- One quarter of all the "Greenest Block in Brooklyn" residential semifinalists are in Bed-Stuy. BBG
- Brooklyn lesbian couple sues resort over gay wedding. Brooklyn Eagle
- Potholes reported to the 3-1-1- website are falling into a black hole. NY Daily News
- He can rot in hell, but we can't get enough of Murdoch's Tiger Wife. Guardian
- We still don't understand how this women's urinal works. Gothamist
- If you see this warning from Google when you're searching, pay attention! Google Online Security
- 12 tips to make your smartphone battery last longer. Huff Post
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