5:06
- ABC News
- July 14, 2019
Power restored after Manhattan blackout
The cause of the outage was not immediately known.
5:06
\"I applaud all New Yorkers,\" Cuomo said. \"When things are at their worst, New Yorkers are at their best.\"
Adam Korzeniewski, a political consultant, was heading to meet a friend for dinner on the Upper West Side when the lights went out.
“It was surreal, because normally you have the lights and commotion of New York City. But it was pitch black,” he said.
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He said he saw a handful of pedestrians step in to direct traffic. Once he reached the northern point of the blackout, he said he saw an \"exodus of people” walking towards the lit-up buildings.
The outage began just before 7 p.m. and initially impacted about 20,000 customers. An hour later, the impacted area nearly doubled, and the outage eventually spread even further, causing the lights to go out at Madison Square Garden, a Con Ed spokesman said.
The singer Jennifer Lopez said on Twitter she would reschedule her show after her performance was cut short. Concert attendees posted the moment when the stadium went dark.
A spokesman for the city fire department said they responded to \"numerous\" calls about stuck elevators and power outages.
#FDNY is on scene of a transformer fire at W 64 St and West End Ave. Members are responding to reports of numerous stuck elevators that are occupied, but there are currently no patients reported.
— FDNY (@FDNY) July 14, 2019
The Twitter account for New York subways said the agency is working to keep trains moving and bypassed affected stations. All lines and stations were back operating as usual by 2 a.m. on Sunday.
Update: We are working with Con Edison to determine the root cause of the ongoing power failure, which is affecting Midtown and the Upper West Side.
— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) July 13, 2019
Several stations are currently without power and are being bypassed by all trains. Please stay tuned here for updates. pic.twitter.com/UoHv6RKVyl
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is Iowa to campaign for president, initially delayed returning to the city, but later his spokesperson said he was on his way back.
O'Neill said he'd been speaking to de Blasio throughout the outage and \"he knows the lights are back on and he's real proud of the first responders.\"
Two city officials briefed on the situation told ABC News that the outages at first appeared to be under control. But when it appeared the problem was getting worse, it set off a scramble among city and state officials who feared that the outages could expand further and the mayor decide to return to New York.
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While the official numbers may not be available until later Sunday, the FDNY told New York ABC station WABC that call volume in Manhattan jumped exponentially within the first few hours of the blackout. The FDNY responded to approximately 1,000 calls in Manhattan alone, with about 750 related to stuck elevators and automatic alarms.
\"We've got to make sure it doesn't happen again and it's designed to not happen again,\" Cuomo said.
Con Ed said it dealt with returning power to the city Saturday night and would begin assessing what happened throughout the night and into Sunday.
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ABC News' Armando Garcia contributed to this report.
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