NYC Mayor Calls for Probe as Many Wait for Power to Return

NYC Mayor Calls for Probe as Many Wait for Power to Return
Cyclists ride down a path near the Hudson River during high temperatures, New York, on July 20, 2019. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP Photo
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NEW YORK —Mayor Bill de Blasio called for an investigation Monday of power outages that came at the end of this weekend’s oppressive heat, saying he no longer trusts utility Con Edison after it decided to turn off power to thousands of customers.

Around 30,000 customers in Brooklyn were taken off power on July 21, so the utility could make repairs and prevent a bigger outage, de Blasio had said earlier.