fix electrical equipment last week<\/a>, Con Edison on Sunday asked residents in parts of the borough and Brooklyn to conserve energy while crews continue repair work during the city\u2019s heatwave.<\/p>\nAs a precaution, the power company has lowered the voltage by around 8% in the affected neighborhoods. The temporary limit is intended to protect equipment and maintain service while repairs are underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The area includes 148,200 customers in the Queens neighborhoods of Broad Channel, South Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Lindenwood, Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven and Kew Gardens, as well as East New York, Cypress Hills, Highland Park and City Line in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
The area is bounded by the Jackie Robinson Parkway on the north, Jamaica Bay on the south, the Van Wyck Expressway and Queens Boulevard on the east, and the Brooklyn-Queens line and Alabama and Louisiana avenues on the west.<\/p>\n
The utility said the equipment problems in these neighborhoods have no effect on the rest of the Con Edison system.\n<\/p>\n
The utility has asked customers in these areas not to use energy-intensive appliances such as washers, dryers, and microwaves until crews complete repairs. The company also asked customers to \u201climit unnecessary use of air conditioning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you have two air conditioners, use only one and set it to the highest comfortable temperature,\u201d a Con Ed press release stated.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
New Yorkers can report outages and check service restoration status at www.conEd.com\/reportoutage<\/a> or call 1-800-75-CONED (1-800-752-6633).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE \u2013 A Con Edison worker toiling in a manhole. Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU\/AFP via Getty Images After…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":915901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,12638,370062,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,7053,4413,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-915900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-brooklyn","tag-con-edison","tag-heatwave-in-nyc","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-power-outages","tag-queens","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116871995497096305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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