Con Edison blamed the blackout on the "heat wave affecting the region" and asked customers "to conserve energy while crews repair equipment."

The blackout zone—home to 166,000 customers—includes neighborhoods such as Jamaica, Laurelton, Cambria Heights, and Queens Village, bounded by Grand Central Parkway, Jamaica Bay, Nassau County, and the Van Wyck Expressway.

The latest data from the power tracking website Power Outage shows 8,830 outages across Queens.