This came about a week after a blackout on the West Side of Manhattan and in Midtown left thousands of people, and Broadway shows, without electricity for hours.

“The service is very reliable, one of the most reliable in the country,” a spokesman for Con Edison, Allan Drury, said yesterday afternoon.

Catch me up: How many people lost power?

Fifty thousand customers lost electricity on Sunday, many of them in Brooklyn, where Con Edison purposely shut off some power to relieve stress on the grid. Adding to the misery, thunderstorms brought heavy rain that flooded many city streets yesterday night.

The utility said on its website that as of late Monday , “more than 99 percent of the 33,000 Brooklyn customers that we took out of service last night have been restored.” Early on Tuesday, its figures indicated that more than 6,000 remained without power across the city.

Here is a map that shows where the power is still out.

[Read more about the heat wave and power failures.]