A giant blackout left part of Manhattan for a few hours on Saturday, July 13, plunging subway stations into darkness, blocking elevators, extinguishing traffic lights and illuminated signs in Times Square, New York’s tourist hotspot. York.
West of Manhattan, about 42,000 users were deprived of electricity in the early evening, according to the company Con Edison, which did not communicate on the causes of the blackout. The power returned shortly after 10 p.m. local time, followed by a clamor, AFP noted.
On social networks, dozens of Internet users posted photos of dark underground stations in the evening. While waiting for the power to be restored, the New York transport authority, the MTA, had asked travelers to “avoid underground stations” in Manhattan, that is to say almost the entire network.
On the surface – with the power cut in the Broadway and Hell’s Kitchen theater area further west – the traffic lights had ceased to function and the giant billboards in the Times Square neighborhood had gone out. The only luminous marks were the flashing lights of the police cars and the fire engine.
The origin of the blackout “appears to be something gone wrong in the way they transmit electricity from one part of town to another to meet demand,” MSNBC told Iowa. , the mayor of the city Bill de Blasio. Ironically, the blackout occurred on the anniversary of the “Blackout”, the gigantic power cut that affected almost the entire city, in 1977.
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