NYC Blackout: 'We're Paying It Forward' As Tourists Direct Traffic Amid Massive Manhattan Power Outage
Traffic lights were out from the Upper West Side to Midtown Manhattan. Traffic kept flowing because of locals, and tourists.
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Traffic lights were out from the Upper West Side to Midtown Manhattan. Traffic kept flowing because of locals, and tourists.
A large power outage struck Midtown, Times Square, Hell’s Kitchen, and other parts of Upper Manhattan.
A large power outage impacted thousands throughout Midtown, Hell's Kitchen, and Upper Manhattan. Subway service was disrupted and traffic lights were out in parts of the city.
CBS2 reached to Con Edison to ask about multiple complaints regarding the high-rise's power. Con Edison said the transformer is actually owned by NYCHA and is supposed to power the seven Bronx buildings.
The FDNY says they responded to six manhole fires in Clinton Hill around 6 p.m. Tuesday evening.
PSE&G says at the height of the outage, service was out to approximately 1,500 customers as crews waited to inspect the damaged electrical facilities.
Almost four dozen buildings were in the dark this morning at the Spring Creek Towers apartments.
Some train service was suspended into and out of Penn Station late Sunday afternoon due to a power outage.
A power outage struck the Prudential Center Sunday night as a crowd packed the Newark venue for a Garth Brooks concert.
An equipment failure at PSE&G's substation in Passaic knocked out power to about 10,000 customers around 8 a.m. Friday, the utility said.
Major power outages caused chaos on mass transit systems in both New York and San Francisco Friday.
Classes were canceled in two NYU campus buildings and a library was closed due to a power outage Tuesday.
An estimated 11,000 customers lost power in Jersey City late Monday night.
A power plant fire left most of Puerto Rico in the dark Wednesday evening.
Rutgers University has canceled some classes and closed some buildings on its main campus in New Brunswick due to a series of power outages.
An estimated 17,000 customers lost power in Hudson County, New Jersey Wednesday evening.
Thousands were left in the dark and some were stranded in elevators when a glitch knocked out power to a housing complex in Queens.
Tens of thousands of customers in the northern suburbs lost power Thursday night after a substation fire.
A power outage halted Amtrak Northeast Corridor service between New York City and New Haven, Connecticut Friday evening.
According to PSEG, the outage began with a manhole fire at University Avenue and Bleecker Street at around 1:30 a.m.
Power went out Thursday evening in a section of Penn Station.
Crews worked through the night to restore power to the lower level early Tuesday morning.
Power is slowly being restored hours after a water main break caused a partial outage at Grand Central Terminal Monday, forcing stores and restaurants to close and leaving commuters in the dark.
PSEG said the temporary power outage was due to a "tripped power line."
A power outage is darkening a stretch of New York's Hudson Valley, including a shopping mall on a holiday-season Saturday night.
