The move follows stark warnings that increased electricity demand and decreasing fossil fuel generation could cause blackouts in the Big Apple as soon as next summer.

Power was restored across midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side just before midnight after a massive blackout left 73,000 customers without electricity for hours on Saturday evening, Con Edison ...

Bay Ridgeite June Marcus and her husband Robert Hutt were stuck in an elevator in an Upper West Side building when the blackout hit Manhattan on July 13. “The elevator suddenly stopped and it was ...

For Op-Ed’s 40th anniversary, an adaptation of an essay by Richard Price. By Richard Price The massive blackout on Aug. 14, 2003, five years ago, exposed many flaws in the nation’s fragile power grid.

The massive blackout on Aug. 14, 2003, five years ago, exposed many flaws in the nation’s fragile power grid. By Ken Belson and Matthew L. Wald BBDO Worldwide president Andrew Robertson Frequent Flier ...