Dozens stranded in stuck elevators as lights flicker in brief NYC power outage
Lights flickered, subway service was disrupted and firefighters rescued scores of people trapped in elevators after a small explosion at an electrical facility caused a momentary power outage in New York City.
The brief outage just before midnight Thursday affected most of the city, officials said.
“Essentially people saw a flicker in their lights for about a second a little bit before midnight and then voltage recovered or kind of went back to normal,” Matthew Ketschke, the president of the power utility Con Edison.