Brooklyn pols demand state probe of blackouts
Bay Ridgeite June Marcus and her husband Robert Hutt were stuck in an elevator in an Upper West Side building when the blackout hit Manhattan on July 13. “The elevator suddenly stopped and it was pitch black,” Marcus told the Home Reporter. “But we had just gotten into the elevator, so I knew we weren’t that high up. We were probably only on the second floor.”
Within 10 minutes, the building’s back-up generator kicked in and the elevator resumed working.
Marcus and Hutt walked out of the building and onto the street, where they encountered crowds of people walking around with confused looks on their faces. “Everyone looked stunned. No one knew what to do. You saw police directing traffic. You heard fire engines. But it was still light out at that point. People were very calm and were trying to help each other,” Marcus said.