{"id":119952,"date":"2026-02-02T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119952\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:36:20","slug":"nearly-2k-people-still-without-power-in-brooklyn-after-outage-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119952\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 2k people still without power in Brooklyn after outage on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2,000 Brooklyn residents are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/more-than-1k-residents-in-brooklyn-still-without-power-heat\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">still without power<\/a>\u00a0as crews have been working to fix the outage since Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors in Park Slope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/con-ed-customers-in-brooklyn-spend-second-night-without-heat\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spent a second night without heat<\/a> after manhole fires erupted. Con Edison worked through Sunday night, attempting to restore power.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said melting snow mixed with road salt made contact with underground electrical equipment, leading to the outages.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are also dealing with snow-covered manholes, which are making it harder for them to access damaged equipment.<\/p>\n<p>As of 6:30 a.m., there are 1,759 customers without service. Neighbors said they are doing whatever they can to stay warm and safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have extra heaters, and we have blankets. We bring food up, down the stairs for people that can&#8217;t make it,&#8221; said resident Elizabeth Corbett.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Hughes, 83, said she has been suffering since Saturday morning, along with hundreds who live in her building on Warren Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no heat, no hot water, it&#8217;s just horrible. You have to bathe in cold water,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hughes said she&#8217;s lived there since 1972 and has never had a problem like this. Another Park Slope resident, Vicente Velez, said he slept in layers and a hat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Local officials said some residents may have power restored Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 2,000 Brooklyn residents are still without power\u00a0as crews have been working to fix the outage since Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1168,9,24,63,8005],"class_list":{"0":"post-119952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-con-edison","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-park-slope"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}