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Thousands are without power in Park Slope as melting snow and road salt damage electrical equipment. <\/p>\n
File photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n
Local officials pushed to bring emergency assistance to the streets of Park Slope on Monday as a dayslong power outage continued.\n<\/p>\n
Residents started to lose power on Friday, Jan. 30. As of Feb. 2, nearly 2,000 households in the neighborhood were still without electricity, according to Con Edison\u2019s outage map<\/a>, with issues clustered on the north end of Fourth Avenue between Douglass and Pacific streets.<\/p>\n A ConEd spokesperson said conditions caused by last weekend\u2019s snowstorm<\/a> sparked the electrical issues. Melting snow mixed with road seeped underground and damaged wires and equipment, they said, causing \u201clocalized failures.\u201d<\/p>\n After a week of below-freezing temperatures, manholes are still blocked by snow, ice and snowed-in vehicles, they added, slowing response times as crews \u201cdig out dense, frozen layers of snow and ice just to access the system.\u201d<\/p>\n Those lengthy repair timelines have left residents increasingly frustrated. Some locals were initially told they would have power back by Saturday morning, only to receive multiple text updates pushing their restoration estimates back by hours at a time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Park Slope resident Michael Liss said the issues started on Friday evening, when a brownout hit his apartment building. Some lights in his unit were functioning normally, he said, while others wouldn\u2019t come on at all, or would just barely glow. The pilot light on his HVAC system wouldn\u2019t engage, and the heat stopped working.<\/p>\n The situation was similar in neighboring units and buildings, he said, though most people still had functioning heat. Conditions worsened after a manhole fire<\/a> at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Bergen Street on Saturday morning, he said, and many more people lost power and heat completely.<\/p>\n The outage left thousands of people facing dangerously-cold weather without electricity or heat. Though temperatures climbed above freezing for the first time in nine days on Monday and were expected to hit 36 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, per the National Weather Service<\/a>, lows will remain at or below 22 degrees, with even colder wind chill.\u00a0<\/p>\n Liss and his family have been staying in a nearby hotel since Friday, he said. They were initially told that power would be restored on Saturday morning, but their home was still dark as of Monday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n More and more neighbors have checked into the hotel as the outage has gone on, Liss said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re fortunate to be able to ride this out at a hotel for a little while compared to people who have to go to shelters and heating centers,\u201d Liss said. \u201cIt\u2019s an inconvenience, it\u2019s disruptive, but we\u2019re grateful that we can work our way through it compared to the way it could be impacting other people.\u201d<\/p>\n Council Member Shahana Hanif was briefed by ConEd on Monday, she said on social media, and was told that two high-voltage feeders were down, and that crews were moving \u201cblock by block\u201d to identify and isolate the broken equipment so they could safely restore power. ConEd sent a customer service van to the corner of Baltic Street and Third Avenue on Monday to provide in-person assistance.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the meantime, Hanif worked to bring emergency resources to the nabe. Cops were deployed to direct traffic at crowded intersections where traffic lights were down, she said. The Office of Emergency Management dispatched a \u201cwarming bus\u201d to Baltic Avenue between Fourth and Fifth avenues, a spokesperson told Brooklyn Paper, and opened the Wyckoff Gardens Community Center at 280 Wyckoff St. as an additional warming center.<\/p>\n The community center will be open 24\/7 until all power is restored, the spokesperson said, and both warming stations are free to use. The neighborhood\u2019s other warming center, at a local school, was unavailable after students returned to classrooms on Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n Con Edison has said that residents will not be charged for days they were out of service and thus not using electricity, and urged locals impacted by outages to submit reimbursement claim forms online<\/a> or in-person within 30 days of the outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n The utility usually reimburses customers for the cost of refrigerated food or medications lost during power outages. Hanif said Monday that she wants more.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n![\"con](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-02-at-5.03.38-PM.jpg\")
Con Edison\u2019s outage map showed clusters of outages along Fourth Avenue. Screenshot courtesy of Con Edison<\/p>\n![\"person](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SnowStorm_ParkSlope_012626-24.jpg\")
A person clearing snow in Park Slope on Jan. 26. The snowstorm is still impacting the nabe, per Con Edison.File photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n