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Power Failure in NYC !!!
Its the 42nd anniversary of the major blackout in NYC that happened in 1977
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Tens of thousands of people are without power in Manhattan this Saturday evening, ConEdison said.Of the 42,000 customers without power in New York, most of them were in Midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side, the utility company said.
The city's fire department was responding to numerous transformer fires, the first of which occurred in Manhattan on West 64th Street and West End Avenue, officials said.
The outage was having a widespread effect, with the New York subway system also experiencing power outages in its stations, the agency managing the trains said.
"We're working to identify causes and keep trains moving," the Metropolitan Transportation Authority tweeted.
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They are working to get the power restored as quickly as possible...
Many people were in theaters, restaurants and some are stuck in elevators....
And many of the traffic lights aren't working, also the subway system has been affected
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Photos from Times Square are showing some of the famous electronic billboards dark as dozens of people stand confused on the sidewalks.
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Power was fully restored in New York early Sunday after an outage left parts of the city in darkness for hours, leaving thousands trapped in subway cars and elevators, and people guiding traffic at intersections.
The outage that started Saturday evening and the lights were back on shortly after midnight, officials said.
It mostly affected midtown Manhattan and parts of the Upper West Side. No injuries were reported.People spilled out into the streets as lightssuddenly dimmed at Broadway shows and speakers fell silent at Jennifer Lopez's concert.
And even the flashing lights at the iconic Times Square went dark, leaving the area surrounded by the glow of cellphones taking photos of the surreal scene.
Lopez said she was disappointed she had to cancel her concert on her second night at the Madison Square Garden. She rescheduledit for Monday night.
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An investigation is going to be conducted....results in a few weeks...
I guess they have to be sure that it wasn't a terroristic attack....
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