Sometime Friday a little before noon Con Ed cut the Time Warner cable that serves this area. There was the following sign:
“CUSTOMERS IN OR AROUND THE FOLLOWING AREAS MAY BE IMPACTED: THE 400-500 BLOCKS OF 3RD ST, THE 400-600 BLOCKS OF 2ND ST, THE 300 BLOCK OF 6TH AVE” 
The Time Warner cable crew has been working on restoring service. It seems that not only is a cut cable involved but also freshly poured concrete on top of it.
As a temporary fix the Time Warner crew re-routed the cable to a lamppost, across the street to another lamp post, and then under 
a steel plate on the sidewalk. Of course in the middle of all this outage there was the gay pride parade on seventh avenue between the aforementioned lamp posts.
Now we are getting our Internet via this cable tied to two lamp posts getting pinched by a steel plate. That pinched coax can’t be very good for impedance, and every time someone steps on that plate it probably gets pinched some more. I guess it will have to do for now. I wonder, will they have to dig a new trench to fix this correctly?
H.C. on Sunday morning
We’re having all kinds of service issues on the upper west side, which Time Warner is denying. I’ve called 4 times and they keep telling me it’s my PC, but everyone I’ve talked to in the building is experieincing the same issues. Have your issues been resolved?