Abstract
In the middle of a heat wave in July 2006, the New York borough of Queens endured a massive power failure that lasted over a week and left local utility company, Con Edison (Con Ed), publicly floundering as it struggled to restore service. Con Ed, with its people and resources tied up in restoration efforts and ongoing investigations into what happened, was unable to provide a spokesman for comment, but much can be learned from its 'Initial Report on the Power Outages in Northwest Queens', dated August 2 and submitted to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The problems occurred within the Long Island City network, an underground system that provides electricity through the North substation to Astoria, Long Island City, Woodside, Sunnyside and Hunters Point, as well as La Guardia Airport and the Rikers Island jail complex. At the height of the crisis, 10 of the network's 22 primary feeders had stopped working. The article describes the events the occurred during the nine-day outage.
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