WPCNR SOUTHENDER. By John F. Bailey. July 14, 2004: Con Edison crews blocked off about a quarter of a mile of Soundview and Ridgeway Avenues last night in their efforts to replace a burned-out underground cable on Soundview Avenue opposite Temple Kol Ami. The work has been going on since last Thursday evening when the second blackouts within 5 weeks affected parts of Soundview Avenue, as well as Battle Hill, where the blackout was caused by a different burn-out in a feeder cable.

A Con Edison supervisor on the scene on Soundview Avenue last night said liquid nitrogen (supplied by two tanker trucks on the scene, above) was used to freeze the oil within the underground cable in order to splice the new cables. Asked by WPCNR what could have caused the burnout, he said he did not know. Photo by WPCNR News. 

NITROGEN TRUCK supplying the supercold nitrogen to facilitate splicing of new cable last night opposite Kol Ami Temple. Photo by WPCNR News.

LANE CLOSURE WRAPPED AROUND THE SOUNDVIEW HORSESHOE CURVE  down Ridgeway, crossing Mamaroneck Road. Here the Con Edison supervisor on the scene said the cable lines on Ridgeway joints were being tested. Photo by WPCNR News.