2006 Queens blackout
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The 2006 Queens blackout was a series of power outages that affected the northwest section of the New York City borough Queens in July 2006. The blackout primarily affected the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, and Woodside. The outages affected 174,000 people, caused business losses of tens of millions of dollars,[1] caused airport and transit delays and cancellations, and caused unsavory living conditions due to a concurrent heat wave.