Firefighters in New York City are responding to reports of explosions on Roosevelt Island.
The New York City Fire Department told Newsweek that it responded to 580 Main Street, south of the Roosevelt Island Bridge and Tram, after receiving reports of explosions and buildings shaking just before 6 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
The situation was under control by around 7:10 a.m., the fire department said.
Residents in the Manhattan and Queens boroughs of the city had called to report what they said sounded like small explosions, NBC New York reported.
Some took to social media to report that they had felt buildings shake on Tuesday morning.
"There were three instances of a boom and a shake, the last one felt further away," a Roosevelt Island resident wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
"I live in Manhattan and felt my building shake on 66th and 1st," another person wrote on the platform.
Another person said they felt "the shake" in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
"Almost like a blast wave moving from the east to west. Hearing hovering helicopters the past 20 minutes or so," they wrote on X.
There were power outages on Roosevelt Island, according to ABC7.
Buildings on River Road, just south of the Roosevelt Island Bridge and Tram, were experiencing power outages, ABC7 reported.
The fire department said the scene has been turned over to power company Con Edison. No injuries have been reported, the department said.
New York City residents have been told to expect road closures and disruptions near Roosevelt Island on Tuesday.
"Expect road closures, mass transit disruptions and emergency personnel near Roosevelt Island. Use alternate routes," the city's notification system posted on X.
Newsweek has contacted Con Edison for comment via email.
The incident comes after an electric equipment failure at a Con Edison substation led to a brief power outage across New York City last month.
The utility said "a fault on a high-tension transmission line" had occurred at the substation in Brooklyn shortly before midnight on December 14.
Matt Ketschke, the president of Con Edison, told reporters that "a piece of high-volt electrical equipment failed in the substation, basically it short-circuited."
He added that "there was a voltage dip, essentially people saw a flicker in their lights for about a second a little bit before midnight, and then voltage recovered or kind of went back to normal."
Update 1/2/24, 9:10 a.m. ET: This article has been updated throughout with additional information.
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