A brief power outage affected many New Yorkers on Thursday night – leaving some trapped in elevators – as smoke was seen rising above a Brooklyn power plant.
Just before midnight, X users across the Big Apple posted that their lights were flickering and others also reported internet outages.
A video on social media showed smoke coming from a Con Edison substation in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, where police said they received a 911 call for an explosion.
Con Ed workers were restoring transmission lines at the Farragut Substation on John Street when “there was an outage that caused a city-wide power surge,” the NYPD said. No injuries.
Con Ed said it was experiencing issues at substations in the county that led to “power drops or surges” that customers were witnessing.
“A high-voltage transmission line fault occurred at the Con Edison substation in Brooklyn at approximately 11:55 last night,” the energy company said in a statement.
“Customers may have experienced power drops or surges during that time. Crews are investigating and working to make the necessary repairs.”
Power outages extended across five districts, according to customer posts on social media.
“Are we just going to pretend there wasn’t a two-second blackout across the city…,” wrote someone with the account name “SomeBrooklynGuy” on X.
Others responded to his tweet that northern New Jersey, Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley also experienced a momentary power imbalance.
Police officers at the Con Ed substation at 12 Gold St. in Brooklyn, where an explosion in a transformer caused flickering lights, power surges and blackouts across New York City early Friday. The NYPD’s Robert Mecea said several 911 calls were made to report the situation. Robert Mecea A post on the X platform shows what appears to be smoke coming from the Con Edison plant in Vinegar Hill. CITIZEN FDNY and NYCHA respond to a stuck elevator inside a building on East 92nd Street in New York on Dec. 15. 2023. Christopher Sadowski
“That hit my friend in Suffolk mate,” replied another user.
Fortunately, there was no disruption to any hospitals or critical care facilities around the city, according to police.
But the FDNY responded to “multiple” locations across the city for reports of power outages and stuck elevators, a fire department spokesman said.
Elevators and escalators at Grand Central Terminal stopped working due to “Con Edison power problems,” the LIRR wrote on X.
No crime is suspected, police said.
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