Tourists in New York A rare sight presented itself on Saturday: Because of a massive one Power failure stayed in the district Manhattan the lights off for several hours. Around 73,000 people in the west of the island were from the Power supply cut off, like the energy supplier Con Edison communicated. The company did not comment on the cause of the breakdown.
It was around 10:00 p.m. local time (4:00 a.m. CEST) Power supply am Times Square restored – the cheers of the people gathered there could still be heard on the streets. The lights went on again at around 11 p.m. in five of the six affected supply areas.
What caused the failure initially remained unclear. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had initially given a “gully fire” as the cause in the short message service, later in the transmitter MSNBC but said that the matter will be investigated.
“That seems like something that just went wrong with distributing electricity from one part of the city to another,” De said Blasiocampaigning for Democratic presidential nomination in the state Iowa stopped.
During the Power failure subway stations were in the dark, the huge glowing billboards on Times Square went out and numerous traffic lights failed. Firefighters had to go out to free people from elevators. The New York City Transportation Authority MTA called for the underground subway stations in Manhattan to avoid.
After the failure of the traffic lights at the intersections, police officers tried to regulate the traffic more badly than properly. In particular the Broadway with its numerous theaters and the Hell’s Kitchen district were affected.
The New Yorkers took that Power failure calmly. The acting troupe of the musical “Hadestown” and a choir of the prestigious concert hall Carnegie Hall simply relocated their demonstrations outdoors.
Lopez concert
A concert by the singer Jennifer Lopez im Madison Square Garden had to be canceled a few minutes before the start. Lopez resigned in the short message service Twitter to make up for the performance.
Dozens of guests at the Row NYC Hotel on 8th Avenue waited on the sidewalk for the lights to come back on. The hotel employees asked them not to enter the building for the time being because neither the lighting nor the elevators were working, reported the 16-year-old Spanish tourist Alba Moreno.
“We were inside when the lights went out and went down the stairs,” said hotel guest Monique Otero. The tourist reported that the emergency power came on, which also opened the elevator doors. Some hotel guests decided to take the elevator instead of the stairs. Because the emergency power failed only a few seconds later, some hotel guests were stuck in the elevator for hours, reported Otero.
Ironically, that happened Power failure on the anniversary of the “blackout” of 1977, when practically the entire city was paralyzed in the middle of the economic crisis. It was closed then Looting and vandalism has come to over a thousand stores. The police arrested hundreds of people. After 25 hours it was Power supply restored. Two more massive Power outages occurred in New York in 1965 and 2003.
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