{"id":127262,"date":"2026-02-09T04:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127262\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:01:25","slug":"hundreds-in-brooklyn-without-power-as-temperatures-plummet-to-single-digits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127262\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds in Brooklyn without power as temperatures plummet to single digits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of Brooklyn residents will have no power or heat through Monday morning as temperatures plunged into the single digits<\/a> following a devastating outage that started late Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

Roughly 1,500 Con Ed customers in Brooklyn were still without power Sunday afternoon as technicians scrambled to patch outage hotspots amid a record-shattering cold snap over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The mercury dropped to 3 degrees in the city Sunday, with bitter wind chills dragging the real feel temperatures to 14 degrees below zero.<\/p>\n

Bushwick felt the brunt of the outage, with an estimated 1,000 residents still impacted as of Sunday night, according to the Con Ed power outage grid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bushwick felt the brunt of the outage, with an estimated 1,000 residents still impacted as of Sunday night, according to the Con Ed power outage grid. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

Con Ed originally estimated power would be restored by 3 p.m. Sunday, but later pushed it to 7 a.m. Monday. <\/p>\n

Residents with electric heat were forced to brave the bone-chilling temps by either bundling up at home or seeking refuge with relatives or at one of the city\u2019s warming centers. <\/p>\n

Camilla, a 35-year-old DJ who lives in Bushwick, lost her heating Sunday afternoon and retreated to a nearby warming center. <\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we are in freaking Alaska. It\u2019s extremely cold indoors,\u201d she told The Post while bundled up in a puffer jacket.<\/p>\n

Camilla\u2019s two pet cats are with her for now as she rushes to find \u201cemergency boarding for them.\u201d <\/p>\n

She said she plans to \u201cwear all my clothes, put on all my layers\u201d if she decides to sleep in her apartment Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Emergency crews work to restore power on a cold, dark street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s crazy. I just don\u2019t understand how Con Ed is managing this situation, but I didn\u2019t see any urgency,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a crazy situation. What if you don\u2019t have friends or family around? What would you do?\u201d she wondered.<\/p>\n

Michael Murphy, a 60-year-old dad of two, said he\u2019s shelling out $477 for two nights at a hotel after losing heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were going to stay with in-laws in Staten Island, but we thought, you know what, let\u2019s make this enjoyable,\u201d Murphy told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s dark and cold. You feel the temperature slowly go down,\u201d he described while warming up in his car. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Melissa Washington, a 35-year-old mom of four, told The Post that she\u2019ll be taking her family to their in-laws\u2019 home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t really experienced this since the blackout all those years ago,\u201d Washington said, referring to the 2003 Big Apple blackout.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mercury dropped to 3 degrees in the city Sunday, with bitter wind chills dragging the real feel temperatures to 14 degrees below zero. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

Washington also claimed that Con Ed \u201chasn\u2019t really been communicating with the residents at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow you have to watch the Super Bowl on a little phone like this,\u201d she groused while squinting at her iPhone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Con Ed said its technicians ran into problems caused by snow and road salt seeping into its ground equipment.<\/p>\n

There are nearly 65 warming facilities open across the city this weekend, including dozens of warming buses, as subzero wind chills pushed temperatures well below freezing.<\/p>\n

Forecasters estimated that the wind alone, which reached up to 50 mph gusts, can make it feel\u00a0anywhere from minus 15 to minus 25<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re not well\u00a0protected,\u00a0if you\u2019re out there for more than half an hour, you\u2019re going to be in trouble with frostbite and hypothermia,\u201d\u00a0AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tom Kines warned.<\/p>\n

The entire city was under a rare extreme cold warning through 1 p.m. Sunday. It is still under a severe weather advisory until 4 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n

At least 18 New Yorkers have died <\/a>outside during nearly two weeks of unrelenting cold weather. Thirteen died of hypothermia, three were linked to overdoses, and two are still under investigation.<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, an 81-year-old man was found dead on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building<\/a>. Officials are probing whether the freezing temps contributed to his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Brooklyn residents will have no power or heat through Monday morning as temperatures plunged into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9449,899,57,9,24,63,344,58],"class_list":["post-127262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-bushwick","tag-extreme-weather","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-power-outage","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127262","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=127262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}