By Simone Sebastian
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER EAST SIDE — Residents on a block of East 87th Street were left without water Tuesday afternoon as the mercury shot into the 90s.
The water outage lasted from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and affected East 87th Street residents between East End and York avenues.
Mike Saucier, a spokesman for the City Department of Environmental Protection, said that they shut off the water mane for the block in order to investigate some minor flooding.
When they determined the cause was a broken service line, and therefore the responsibility of a building owner, they turned the water back on and notified the responsible party.
During the outage, a few residents of E. 87th Street proved resilient, despite the oppressive heat and the hassle.
“No shower today,” said John Reiser, 79, who lives on the block.
“It’s not bad,” he added. “We have to take the bad with the good.”
Other residents were not as understanding.
A woman who refused to give her name complained that, due to the excessive heat, “we have mounds of laundry to do; it’s very inconvenient.”
Another resident, Jenny Laird, 46, was a bit luckier.
"We had just finished our laundry [when the water was turned off,]" she said. "So it was perfect."
