UPDATE: Cable Failure Causes Power Outage In Hoboken, PSEG Says

Almost 1,000 Hoboken residents in the northwest part of the city found themselves without power on Tuesday due to a cable failure, authorities reported.

A PSE&G spokeswoman sent Patch the following statement about the outage on Tuesday morning:

“In Hoboken this morning, 960 customers lost power at 4:38 a.m. Power was restored at 6:38 a.m. There was a failure in a cable feeding a substation. We were able to switch the customers over to a different breaker while we made permanent repairs to the cable.”

The City of Hoboken issued the following alert via Nixle at 5:36 a.m. on Tuesday:

“A power outage is affecting customers in northwest Hoboken. PSE&G has been notified and is responding to the situation.”