Power outages will continue in most of lower Manhattan until sometime Friday or Saturday, Con Ed said today.
Some 220,000 customers south of 36th Street whose electricity is funneled through Con Ed’s East 14th Street substation won’t get their power restored until the flooded substation is fixed, the company said.
Repair work on the substation “is chugging along,” said Con Ed senior vice president John Miksad.
“We have a large contingent down there working on correction of problems, which include flooding as well as equipment failures,” Miksad said.
Con Ed restored much of its Cortlandt network this morning, which serves 2,000 customers in the Financial District between Church Street and Broadway.
Two other downtown networks also serving the Financial District aren’t expected back on line until Friday or Saturday, Miksad said.
It could be a week to 10 days before power is restored in parts of Con Ed’s area served by overhead wires, the company says.
At 11 a.m., Con Ed said 609,000 customers were without power in New York City, and 176,000 customers remained without power in Westchester.
In hard-hit Manhattan, 237,000 Con Ed customers were without power this morning, down from 250,000 at the same time yesterday.
Long Islanders are getting their power slowly restored. Long Island Power Authority reported that 840,000 of its customers are without power today, down from 939,000 yesterday.
About 2 million power customers in the Garden State were still without power this morning, the US Department of Energy said.
New Jersey utility companies reported that they restored power to 575,000 people overnight.