Power Failure Hits New York on Anniversary of 1977 Outage

Описание: A power failure left a chunk of New York City in darkness as 62,000 customers on Manhattan’s West Side lost power on the anniversary of the historic 1977 blackout.

The outage on Saturday night affected an area stretching from Fifth Ave. to the Hudson River, and from West 42nd through 71st streets, according to the city’s emergency notification system. The subway operator said services to as far away as Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx were affected as the power failure took a toll on its “entire system.” Con Edison, the city’s utility, said it’s starting to restore power.

The outage was caused by a substation explosion and fire that created a surge, affecting four other substations, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said, citing an update he received from Consolidated Edison Inc. or ConEd, the city’s utility. He’s sent his “top power team” to look into how this happened.

“If they don’t give me an answer quickly, I’m going to go to ConEd headquarters,” he said in an interview with ABC News, referring to an earlier delay in the power restoration. “If I don’t get a firm answer forthwith, I’ll go speak to Mr. ConEd myself.”

The governor said in a statement earlier that no passengers were stranded on trains and there have been no reports of injuries so far.

Singer Jennifer Lopez canceled her concert at Madison Square Garden and people were evacuated from the venue. The outage also caused all but three Broadway theaters to close, Times Square Command of New York Police Department said.

It’s a sense of deja vu with the power failure striking on the 42nd anniversary of the infamous outage that left most of the city without power. The incident led to widespread looting and arson that cost an estimated $310 million in damages, the New York Times reported.

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