Outage leaves thousands in Queens without power

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - More than 2,000 residents of the Whitestone neighborhood of Queens are without power after losing power Sunday afternoon. 

Con Ed is currently investigating the cause of the outage, but has warned that some customers may not have their power turned back on until early Monday morning.

This weekend’s scorching heat set a record-breaking demand for power, according to Con Ed.