Effects
The northwest Queens power outages coincided with a heat wave in the New York City area the week of July 17. Their effects included knocking out power at LaGuardia Airport and parts of the subway. Subway service was restored Thursday morning. They also caused Rikers Island to switch to backup generators.
The worst result of the outages was a prolonged loss of power to 100,000 northwest Queens residents beginning on July 17. This outage was originally estimated by Con Edison to have affected only 1,600 customers. Con Edison defines a customer as a single edifice such that an entire residential building (which could conceivably be home to hundreds of individuals) is counted as one customer. Con Edison later revised its estimates tenfold.
Read more about this topic: 2006 Queens Blackout
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