STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Power was restored in Sunnyside after a squirrel caused an outage affecting over 90 homes on Monday morning.
The outage was first reported at around 7 a.m. Monday and affected customers along Grand Avenue, between Glenwood Avenue and Rugby Avenue.
At one point, 93 customers reported not having power in the immediate area, according to the Con Ed power outage map.
A spokesperson for Con Ed said that the outage was caused by a squirrel making contact with an overhead wire in the area…