Heart of New York goes dark as Manhattan suffers power outage

[Yaseen1]

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[Yaseen1]

Is this cyber attack from russia.Can our friends from u.s confirm reason of this blackout.
@Hamartia Antidote

 

[Azadkashmir]

operation talpiot isreal but russia will get the blame.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Is this cyber attack from russia.Can our friends from u.s confirm reason of this blackout.
@Hamartia Antidote

I think they said rainwater flooding an underground electrical tunnel. However the Russians could be hitting the clouds with a cyberattack. They are the tricky ones!

 

[war&peace]

I think they said rainwater flooding an underground electrical tunnel. However the Russians could be hitting the clouds with a cyberattack. They are the tricky ones!

 

[VCheng]

I think they said rainwater flooding an underground electrical tunnel. However the Russians could be hitting the clouds with a cyberattack. They are the tricky ones!

I heard it was a HAARP test.

 

[Clutch]

Is this cyber attack from russia.Can our friends from u.s confirm reason of this blackout.
@Hamartia Antidote

Yes... Everything is a conspiracy for Pakistan's...

 

[Yankee-stani]

I had no outage where I was in Queens tho Manhattan, Staten Island parts of Brooklyn had the whole outage Con Edison the provider claimed it was sub station issue does not help that clown Mayor De Blasio was in the midwest for his Presidential run

Ironic the outage happen on the 42nd anniversary of the 1977 blackout I recall the 2003 blackout

 

[Dubious]

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PLEASE always post full article!

You arent getting paid to post first so dont waste time and space by throwing only a url!

We need both article and URL (SOURCE)

NY Blackout: Lots Of Questions, No Answers And A Mayor Under Fire

Muhammad Irfan 1 hour ago Wed 17th July 2019 | 12:19 AM

A weekend blackout in New York raised a host of unanswered questions, put the mayor on the defensive as he runs for president and triggered doubts about the state of infrastructure in America's biggest city

New York, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - APP - 16th Jul, 2019 ) :A weekend blackout in New York raised a host of unanswered questions, put the mayor on the defensive as he runs for president and triggered doubts about the state of infrastructure in America's biggest city.

Utility company Con Edison apologized for the Saturday's five-hour power outage. But mystery surrounds the cause of the blackout on the west side of Manhattan, which left some 73,000 customers without power, turned Times Square dark, silenced Jennifer Lopez mid-concert and halted subway lines.

Con Edison warned more blackouts were possible as the city prepares for a heatwave this weekend, with temperatures of up to 97 Fahrenheit (36 Celsius) and very muggy air.

"We expect that there could be service outages -- those things happen during heat waves," spokesman Mike Clendenin told tv station PIX11 on Monday, while pointing out that the company spends $2 billion a year to prepare for such eventualities.

He said the blackout was not caused by a spike in electricity usage.

The outage struck on the 42nd anniversary of a major blackout in 1977 that sparked chaos in the Big Apple, as people engaged in looting and acts of vandalism.

This time no one was injured but 2,875 commuters had to be rescued from five subway trains and 400 elevators got stuck.

"The center of our little island is supposed to be the center of the universe... Yes, we want to be the center of finance, tech and media, but we cannot even keep the lights on for a Saturday evening," columnist Nicole Gelinas wrote in the New York Post.


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[VCheng]

"The center of our little island is supposed to be the center of the universe... Yes, we want to be the center of finance, tech and media, but we cannot even keep the lights on for a Saturday evening," columnist Nicole Gelinas wrote in the New York Post.

Congratulations! Loadshedding has landed in the Big Apple.

 

[Dubious]

Congratulations! Loadshedding has landed in the Big Apple.

What goes around comes around...

 

[VCheng]

What goes around comes around...

I did not understand this comment at all in the context of this thread. Loadshedding goes around the world?

 

[Dubious]

I did not understand this comment at all in the context of this thread. Loadshedding goes around the world?

Just be thankful it wasnt the Russians

 

[VCheng]

Just be thankful it wasnt the Russians

HAARP experiment it was, I heard.

 

[Yaseen1]

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Heart of New York goes dark as Manhattan suffers power outage


Governor calls failure ‘unacceptable’ as 73,000 people lose electricity for three hours

Associated Press in New York

Sun 14 Jul 2019 11.42 BSTFirst published on Sun 14 Jul 2019 02.31 BST

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New York citizens direct traffic after power cut hits Manhattan – video
A power outage crippled the tourist-filled heart of Manhattan just as Saturday night Broadway shows were set to go on, sending theatregoers spilling into siren-filled streets, knocking out Times Square’s towering electronic screens and bringing subway lines to a near halt.

Electricity was restored to customers and businesses in midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side by about midnight.

John McAvoy, the CEO of energy provider Con Edison, said a problem at a substation caused the power failure at 6.47pm, affecting 73,000 customers for more than three hours along a 30-block stretch from Times Square to 72nd Street and Broadway, and spreading to the Rockefeller Center.

McAvoy said the exact cause of the blackout would not be known until an investigation was completed.

Sahid Abraham(@Sahid0)
Times Square is down, i repeat, Times Square is down. This is not a drill!! #Blackout #NYCpic.twitter.com/8IUfER7ozl

July 13, 2019
The temperature was around 28C (82F) as the sun set, challenging the city’s power grid, but not as steaming as Manhattan can get in July.

Power went out early on Saturday evening at much of the Rockefeller Center, reaching the Upper West Side and knocking out traffic lights.

A big cheer went up among Upper West Side residents when power flickered back on at about 10.30 pm. For hours before that, doormen stood with flashlights in the darkened entrances of upmarket apartment buildings along Central Park West, directing residents to walk up flights of stairs to their apartments, with all elevators out.

Police directed traffic at intersections as pedestrians and bikes weaved through the dark.

The failure came on the anniversary of the 1977 New York City outage that left most of the city without power.

The New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, said in a statement that although no injuries were reported “the fact that it happened at all is unacceptable”. He said the state’s department of public service would investigate.

He said the outage posed a safety risk.

“You just can’t have a power outage of this magnitude in this city,” Cuomo said. “It is too dangerous, the potential for public safety risk and chaos is too high. We just can’t have a system that does that, it’s that simple at the end of the day.”

Most Broadway musicals and plays cancelled their Saturday evening shows, including Hadestown, which last month won the Tony award for best musical. Several cast members from the musical Come From Away held an impromptu performance in the street outside the theatre for disappointed audience members.
Garden, where Jennifer Lopez was performing on Saturday night. Attendees said the concert went dark about 9.30pm in the middle of Lopez’s fourth song of the night. The arena was later evacuated. And at Penn station, officials were using backup generators to keep the lights on.

Both Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts were evacuated.

When the lights went out early on Saturday evening, thousands of people streamed out of darkened Manhattan buildings. They crowded Broadway, where there was bumper-to-bumper traffic, emergency vehicle sirens and honking car horns.

People in the neighbourhood commonly known as Hell’s Kitchen began directing traffic themselves as stoplights and walking signs went dark.

Ginger Tidwell, a dance teacher and Upper West Side resident, was about to order at a West Side diner on Broadway and West 69th Street just before 7pm. “When the lights started flickering, and then went out, we got up and left, walking up Broadway with all the traffic lights out and businesses dark,” she said.

But once they got to West 72nd Street, they found another diner that was open and had power.

“It was still sunny and everyone just came out to the street because they lost power and air-conditioning; it was super crowded,” she said. “Everyone was hanging out on the street on a nice night. All you could hear was fire trucks up and down Broadway. All of Broadway was without traffic lights.”

Underground, the entire subway system was affected. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said four Manhattan stations were closed to the public at Columbus Circle, Rockefeller Center, Hudson Yards and Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street. But he said train operators were able to manually change the signals and bring at least one car into stations so passengers could get cut off