Today's Blackouts Begin in The Bronx

how many new condos does it take to screw a whole city?

well we shall soon find out.

here in 11211 the power has been browning out persistently, to about 115V, for the past 48hours (US standard in 120V for those who might not be aware).

the problem is not that they can't manage the power, the problem is that infrastructure is to old to keep up with the current land grabbing/re-zoning, and the transformers can't handle more that X amount of power (which they probably measured in 1930 standards or some such madness)... and whenever a new condo comes online, and fills up, the local transformer takes a hit. last summer most of the condos where empty, but many have filled up now and are taking mega energy.

i can't even begin to think about what happens when The Edge fills up. AND on top of that we are in the upswing of the North Atlantic oscillation, which means hotter temperatures for the next 80 years. and many more floods too.

Truf, folks. Stand up; sit down.

woodlawn has had power all day. Not sure what the heck this article is saying.

- "No no no, this city's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 13.45 gigawatts of elect..."

- What did I just say?

- (rewinding) "This city's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 13.45 gigawatts of elect..."

- 13.45 gigawatts?! 13.45 gigawatts! Great Scott!

- Doc, what the hell's a gigawatt?!

Taking the bus home today. I'm not worried about the subway losing power, it's just that the Herald Sq. station is hot enough when the temperatures *aren't* 20 degrees above normal.

new york city electric crisis like california electric crisis? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis

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No, not like that even a little bit. Thanks for stopping by.

Time to look into Tesla's idea of wireless electricity transmission.

Yes, because nothing gets more power to consumers than generating a massive electromagnetic field that has tremendous losses with distance. Not to mention the questionable safety of having biological organisms (i.e. humans) continuously bathed in such an intense electromagnetic field.

WOODLAWN!

What's up with the one building that not only appears to have power, but has every light turned on?

Someone asked on the 2007 thread, but didn't get an answer..

The building with all the lights on is 55 Water. In the 70's it was home to the Depository Trust Company (still is, but now called DTCC), which was the middle man between stock buyers and sellers. Lots of paperwork in those days any time a stock was traded, so my guess is that building was filled with clerks doing paperwork.

...or maybe it's 111 Wall. I can't really tell.

It looks like 7 Hanover Square to me. 55 Water is the dark building to the left of the lit up one.

I'd say it is a backup diesel generator.

I for one will be using above-ground transport to get home tonight, even if it takes an hour longer...no interest in learning first hand of a blackout while on a train under the East River.

According to their outage map ConEd has only 2 outages in the Bronx. Staten Island is getting hit hard with about 3,500 outages currently.

Shut off times square dammit

According to their outmap ConEd has only 2 outages in the Bronx. Staten Island is getting hit hard with about 3,500 outages currently.

Con Ed better gets its act together!

It looks like they are slowly hinting at another 2006 blackout scenario.

Dear Coned-

I would apprecaite a blackout on E. 44th between 1st & 2nd...or just all of Turtle bay and Murray Hill near the UN.

thanks

MAYHEM

Don't forget that ConEd's idea of a "customer" is an entire building, even if it contains dozens of apartments. So those 1200 "customers" might really be thousands of people. Something to keep in mind when interpreting their numbers over the coming days.

one customer = one electric meter

typical con ed shit! of course they are going to emphasize the black in black out. why not cut off those who are using the most power? eff you midtown, upper east side and upper west side!

Cutting off midtown won't help the Bronx. These blackouts are caused by local equipment overloads, not by a shortage of power.

i'm no expert at utilities management, but how much power does it take to keep the bronx going? many manhattan neighborhoods could make a few sacrifices, and con ed could promote that by enforcing a power usage quota plus improving equipment in non-manhattan neighborhoods to which more power can then be distributed. its not rocket science; its politics.

I for one will be using above-ground transport to get home tonight, even if it takes an hour longer...no interest in learning first hand of a blackout while on a train under the East River.

Of course...it's always the poorer neighborhoods that get blacked out first. But so is the way of the world.

There are some anomalies though, like neighborhoods that have become more affluent in the past decade, i.e. DUMBO, W'burg, Astoria...ConEd screws them, too.

C'mon NY, you're wasting energy! Just do the opposite of putting on a sweater.

No Most New Yorkers are selfish, arrogant, bitches, when it comes to using, then applying, commonsense . All New Yorkers by now know Consolidated Edison's line here during the summer months . "Conserve Energy " We all know about the rate increases they "Request" every year . "Some"-> (Meaning the real New Yorkers that were here at that time that are still here) New Yorkers remember the Blackout of 2003 and all the price gauging stores did , limited rioting , etc .. With all that , Why would anyone in NYC want the threat of a blackout on there hands ? Because people are just plain dumb like that !

I remember the blackout being quite peaceful, actually.

Maybe in your area it was .