power outage

Residents without running water have resorted to using the stairs as a toilet in the Ocean Towers.

Hundreds of residents in areas with power outages received food supplied by FEMA after Hurricane Sandy.

But repairs could take up to a week in places as debris from the storm still needs to be cleared. 

The massive storm, which killed 18, brought power outages, raging fires and historic floods.

Some residents of Zone A regretted not leaving as Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc along the East River.

About 780,000 New York City-area households are without power following the storm, Mayor Bloomberg said.

The power at the 35-building Bronx complex went out early Thursday before Con Ed officials restored it.

Power outages in Brooklyn and Queens leaves residents without electricity on another scorcher of a day.

A temporary power outage cut off electricity to 600 customers Monday morning, Con Ed said.

Con Ed expected power to be restored by 9 p.m. Monday after the power outage.

Nearly 120 homes were left without power Monday morning after a transformer fire on Staten Island.

Outages on Grand Street in Little Italy have cost local merchants thousands of dollars in lost revenue.

Parts of Stuyvesant Town have had no hot water since Saturday afternoon when Con Edison turned off steam lines to prevent damage from Hurricane Irene.

Residents were evacuated Wednesday night and blocks of Washington Heights went dark after a power outage.

A smoking manhole left 43 apartment units without power at 24 Thayer St., officials said.