Major Power Outage Hits Parts of Manhattan
Written by SOURCE on July 14, 2019
A massive power outage is affecting Upper and Midtown Manhattan.
Reports of the outage began flooding on social media Saturday night, with many New Yorkers sharing photos and videos of affected subway stations and streets in Midtown and the Upper West Side.
Officials also say they have received multiple reports of people who were stuck in elevators.
As of press time, Con Edison’s outage map showed more than 27,000 customers are without power in the Midtown and Upper Manhattan areas. The cause of the outage is currently unknown, but the New York City Subway tweeted they are looking into the issue.
According to the New York Times, the New York Fire Department said it has received reports about a transformer fire, as well as smoke in multiple West Side buildings.” It’s unclear if the reported fires are related to the outage.
The outage occurred 42 years after NYC’s historic blackout, which left millions of residents without power from July 13-14, 1977.
This story is developing.
