2006 Queens blackout

The cause of the outages—which was undetermined for five days—appeared to be the company's decision to continue supplying power to the 400,000 people serviced by twenty-two feeder cables after ten of them had failed, overloading the remaining twelve.

The northwest Queens power outages coincided with a heat wave in the New York City area the week of July 17.

[6] The worst result of the outages was a prolonged loss of power to 100,000 northwest Queens residents beginning on July 17.

[11] The extent of the outage and perceived poor response on their behalf prompted criticism to be levied on Con Edison and mayor Michael Bloomberg.

In addition, there were calls from MTA officials explaining how the power problem affected the subways that week (July 17–21).