[custom_adv] The power outage stranded subway passengers, shut out the lights in Times Square and stopped or canceled multiple events on the west side of Manhattan, with fans evacuating a Jennifer Lopez concert at Madison Square Garden. [custom_adv] On Broadway, the blackout occurred about an hour before many of the shows were set to begin, eventually leading to the cancellation of 26 of the 30 shows scheduled to run Saturday evening, including “Hamilton,” “Wicked” and “The Lion King.” [custom_adv] As they sat in the audience seats awaiting the decision, Van Wieren rallied her cast mates to go perform “Welcome To the Rock.” She said they moved like a wave to the door to “shout-sing” the opening number for the fans outside. [custom_adv] Performers from multiple Broadway shows gave impromptu renditions to crowds along the streets outside the theaters. [custom_adv] In the mayor's absence, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the one, front and center, explaining what went wrong. New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, a potential mayoral aspirant himself, also filled the void left behind by de Blasio, tweeting updates and explanations throughout the early evening and into the unusually dark night. [custom_adv] There are a lot of places New York City mayors want to be when widespread power outages strike.Waterloo, Iowa, is not one of them. [custom_adv] Business looked like it was back to normal Sunday for restaurants along 10th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen. They are places that lost four hours of business and more when the power went out. They lost thousands of dollars after their doors were closed, inventory was tossed and delivery orders canceled. [custom_adv] The blackout, which started just before 7 p.m. and lasted until midnight, trapped five trains carrying 2,875 riders in Manhattan subway tunnels, said NYC Transit President Andy Byford. [custom_adv] The electrified third rails that power trains worked during the outage — but signals on the lettered subway lines in much of Manhattan were out of commission, Byford told the Daily News. [custom_adv] Subway signals are meant to keep trains from colliding or derailing. Without them, crews had to carefully move stuck trains to nearby stations to get riders out. The final stalled train was evacuated shortly after 9 p.m., Byford said. [custom_adv] City officials said the blackout trapped about 400 people in elevators. But only one subway elevator stalled, trapping five people at the W. 34th St.-Hudson Yards station. Cops and firefighters helped safely remove them. [custom_adv] The MTA deployed extra bus service move riders between closed subway stops. For a brief period Saturday night buses were the only vehicles allowed to enter the zone affected by the blackout, MTA officials said. [custom_adv] The dark Manhatten skyline, seen from Queens, is sillouetted against a pre-dawn sky . A widespread power outage hit most of northeastern United States Thursday afternoon, leaving the city in the dark BLACKOUT NEW YORK SKYLINE, NEW YORK, USA
