Charter Communications, which owns Spectrum, said crews repaired a fiber-optic cable that was damaged by vandalism. Some cable techs who have been on strike since the end of March showed up Monday night to picket at one of the repair sites.
The outage happened at about 2 a.m. Monday and immediately knocked out service for a significant number of customers in central Queens.
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz posted a message on social media about the situation:
"Per @Spectrum, at approximately 2AM today, vandals cut fiber at 4 major hubs, cutting service for 60,000 customers in #Queens."
A spokesman for Spectrum issued a statement Monday, saying service was expected to be returned by the evening evening, but that crews were still working to repair service.
"Our crews are on site and working to repair a fiber optic cable damaged by vandalism, which is affecting TV, internet and phone services for Spectrum customers in central Queens. We appreciate our customers' patience while we restore service as quickly as possible."
Downdetector.com, a website that tracks major outages, showed a significant portion of NYC without service - though the company said the outage was limited to Queens.

Customers are posting on social media about the outage:
@Ask_Spectrum Is the Queens NY outage due to a cut cable or #Spectrumstrike? No service since 3am. Spectrum..making America the WORST again!
— Martin Woolf (@MWoolfNY) June 26, 2017
.@GetSpectrum @ask_spectrum any ET on renewed service to #RegoPark #Queens?
— Rego Park (@RegoParkQueens) June 26, 2017
Is anyone else in #Queens experiencing a Spectrum outage? Been out all day in #Elmhurst and #RegoPark
— Anthony O'Reilly (@ORiled_Up) June 26, 2017
@NYCMayor the #Spectrum outage in Queens is costing massive amounts of money. We aren't getting a paid service from a monopoly. Any help?
— Deepak (@TheDkukade) June 26, 2017
@Ask_Spectrum another outage in the Queens, NY area... this is absolutely ridiculous
— Karan (@KaranC96) June 26, 2017