NEW YORK CITY BLACKOUT

Forty two years to the date that NYC had a massive blackout in 1977, large areas of Manhattan is suffering another one tonight
Just before 7 pm extensive power outages spread across Manhattan early Saturday evening, plunging subway stations, Broadway theaters and department stores in the heart of the Big Apple into darkness on the 42nd anniversary — nearly to the hour–of the 1977 blackout.
Officials said some 42,000 residents were without power.
Traffic lights were out up and down the avenues, and apartment residents wound up trapped in their elevators. Many of Times Square’s storied sky-scraping billboards also blinked out.
The blackout hit as temperatures hovered around 86 degrees, crippling a broad stretch of Manhattan west of 5th Avenue, from W. 42nd Street to W. 72nd, Con Edison’s outage map shows.
Enlarge ImageThis maps shows where New York was affected by the power outage on Saturday.ConEd
The outage slowed or stopped subways throughout Manhattan.
“Disruption is significant,” Mayor de Blasio tweeted at 8:22 from Iowa, where he is campaigning.

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#Update: Just in - All of Times Square in New York in #Manhattan is without power! pic.twitter.com/OOSvO4kSjZ

— Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) July 13, 2019

There’s a power outage at the subway station on 59th, anyone else having this problem? #MTApic.twitter.com/j9iDIHB7OK

— Elizabeth Brennan (@ElizabethB95) July 13, 2019

@NYCTSubway the lights went out at 7 Ave platform. I was waiting for E. Is it a blackout? What’s happening? pic.twitter.com/oPeRUuQfqZ

— Helena Pires (@HelenaD2) July 13, 2019

Major power outage sends large parts of New York City into darkness. https://t.co/oXesQkA994

— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) July 13, 2019

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