Utility Says Power Restored In New York City After Outage Hits 73,000 Customers

Utility Says Power Restored In New York City After Outage Hits 73,000 Customers

Authorities disorganized  to revive electricity to Manhattan following an influence outage that knocked out Times Square's lofty electronic screens and left businesses while not electricity, elevators stuck and subway cars stalled.

Michael Owens/AP

Updated at 12:38 a.m. ET Sunday

New York officers associate degreed Con inventor say power has been totally rehabilitated when an outage knocked out lights on Times Square's large monitors, finish off subways, and stranded folks in elevators on Manhattan's side on Sat evening, impacting tens of thousands within the town.

Some 73,000 customers over six networks on Con Edison's native grid lost power simply before seven p.m. local time, the energy supplier aforesaid. Con male erecticle dysfunction confirmed in an exceedingly message shortly when time of day that power had been totally rehabilitated.

Con male erecticle dysfunction aforesaid a electrical device fireplace in Midtown, at West sixty fourth Street and West End Avenue, seemingly triggered the blackout that stretched from the West 40s to 72nd Street, and from fifth Avenue to the Hudson.

Following the blackout, city manager Bill DE Blasio aforesaid he is ordered town agencies to research the ability failures. "They'll work with ConEd to induce to all-time low of what happened tonight and forestall another widespread outage like this,"

Subway cars froze, stranding commuters off from their homes. 10 native subway lines finish off at one purpose. Some rumored uneven wireless telephone service with cell towers down. Traffic lights went down in major traveler hubs, forcing roads to shut.

Firefighters had folks at bay in elevators, the department aforesaid.

No injuries are rumored to date, officers aforesaid.

St. Luke's Roosevelt edifice, Times Square, Rockefeller Center conjointly went dark, and Broadway shows were canceled or delayed, causing some actors bent the streets to entertain passersby.

Saturday's blackout falls on associate degree eerie day, the 1977 outage that knocked out power in most of the town for a full day. Lightning had smitten power lines on the Hudson, leading to robbery, vandalism, burning and alternative criminal activity.

Meanwhile, a tropical storm has knocked out power for tens of thousands a lot of folks in American state. consistent with poweroutage.us, about 135,000 folks were while not power in American state early Sunday morning.