New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV | Gallons of oil dumped into East River from Con Ed transformer malfunction New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Con Edison crews are working to clean up a transformer malfunction that poured thousands of gallons of oil into the East River Sunday. Officials say a transformer insulating oil was released from one of the substations in Brooklyn. Con Edison spills gallons of oil into East River Clean-Up Under Way Amid Oil Spill in East River off Brooklyn East River Oil Spill: ConEd Transformer Spews 37000 Gallons Of 'Dialectric Fluid' Into Water |