NEW YORK, July 25 (UPI) -- Consolidated Edison worked Tuesday to restore power to the last few hundred homes in a section of New York City, where electricity failed a week ago.
The company warned residents of the affected neighborhood in Queens that the repairs so far are a temporary fix. The outage in Queens affected about 25,000 customers or 100,000 people at its height.
Politicians representing the neighborhood affected by the failure reacted angrily to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who defended the utility at a news conference Monday, The New York Times reported. The mayor said that Con Ed CEO Kevin Burke "deserved the thanks of the city."
City Councilman Eric Gioia said he almost walked out of the news conference.
Residents of the neighborhood also turned against the mayor.
"He's oblivious," Erica Tyler told the Times. "If it had happened in Manhattan, it would have been fixed in five or six hours."
Con Ed blames the outage on a failure of several primary feeder cables on July 18, when a heat wave was in its fourth day, the Times said.
