***BREAKING*** Blackout in Midtown Manhattan

And?

I wonder if Broadway theatres will close — most shows start at 8:00

This is worse than Barry!

Dear lord the next thing you know it will start to RAIN.

You're all gonna DIE!

Russian micro test

How quaint. In my day we had blackouts all over the city, not just in the downtown and lower class UWS

MSNBC reporting 38,000 people without power.

It is hot and humid as hell today!

The people living at the Dakota are not impressed with you either r8.

So how is anyone on DL posting? Emergency generators?!? If it's solar power, the sun will be going down soon..............

I still have power in Washington Heights, should I go fill the bathtub with water and buy all the batteries at the nearest bodega?

What color is the sky?

What about Chelsea? Half of Datalounge posters live there.

Where were you when the lights went out? Asked...Doris Day!

Caftans and Prayers!

What are mobile phones R11?

I'll take Modern Times for $200, please.

Will there be looting????

Karma for constantly predicting that California is done.

Mike Pence is there, taking charge of the situation.

Oh no, how will they text with each other with dead cell towers? They might have to talk.

Obviously North Korea exercising hits hacking ability. Is Trump tower without?

This is why I — as a grownup — would want to listen to InfoWars and watch Alex Jones. Just to hear someone's opinion. Twitter — down. Facebook and Insta — having troubles. 911 down — two days in one week.... THIS SHIT IS WEIRD. So is Alex Jones.

The pillaging will begin soon enough!

Midtown is one of NYC's two downtown areas.

[quote]This is why I — as a grownup — would want to listen to InfoWars and watch Alex Jones.

Because you want to fill your head with disinformation? I guess there is a sucker born every minute.

Mid Manhattan is an insatiable bottom

Broadway shows going on hold, what will they ever do?

Hmmm coincidence that tomorrow is the ICE deportations?

A C F & D lines not running

This will happen next:

But I have tickets to CATS!

I'm worried for Fran Lebowitz

Wonder if Trump Tower has backup?

An official says this started with a manhole fire?

Alex Jones and PBS' Frontline came up with MANY similarly under-reported findings about Sandy Hook...

That's peoplehole, R35.

r35 my Saturday usually starts with a manhole fire

Its, dark, I'm in a sling, of course my man hole is on fire.

Transformer fire is what I'm hearing from MSNBC. Kate Snow was on talking about some friend of hers who was in from Denver who had tickets to HAMILTON and was evacuated from the theater. Shots of Times Square as it's getting darker are pretty creepy. Imagine being on a subway train!! All those RATS!

[quote]Broadway shows going on hold, what will they ever do?

Many have canceled now:

The big blackout of 1977 was on July 13. Weird, huh?

R36 AKA Alix Jones please stop posting fake theories here, gays are not stupid enough to buy your bullshit. Take your phony diet supplements and conspiracy theories to the ditzy Fraus on QVC.

CHAOS IN THE STREETS!

Wasn't there a serial killer on the lose when the black out hit in the 70s?

Impending anarchy!

Party is Over!

BuBy!

MSNBC: Con Edison is saying all power should be restored by 10:30 tonight.

a lot of the casts from the shows are out on the streets performing. Carnegie Hall is having a concert on the street.

Couldn't wait for Amazon Prime Day

What about all the antique stores and art galleries?

Has the cannibalism started yet?

Radio City is BLACK!

I hope Putin's not watching. This just goes to show how crippled we would be if there was an actual attack on our power grids/systems.

I hope no one is stuck in an elevator. It's so hot and humid that would be awful especially if really old or really young or sick

R56, they've been saying throughout the evening that several people are stuck in elevators and the FDNY has been working to get to them all. I hope most are out by now.

they are stuck in elevators and on the subways. Someone posted they were on the 29th floor with windows that don't open and no air conditioning

New York Strong!

Uh-Oh, does this mean my food delivery is going to be a few minutes late?

I'm sure they'll be incredible Youtube videos in the weeks to come.

r60 no, it means it isn't coming.

Oh no! Where will Avital Ronell sleep tonight???

I once sang on a Broadway stage. They made me get off so they could start the show- and I had to join the union!🧐

Will the life boats be seated according to class?

Has Gloria Vanderbilt commented yet?

Imagine if you were in a crowded elevator for hours, with people farting and pissing and worse....!

Does anyone know how Dorinda, Bethenny, Tinsley and Sonja are faring?

Is LuAnn out in the street singing cabaret songs to calm the crowds?

R67 The only thing worse than being stuck in an elevator with someone who shit their pants is shitting your own pants.

R67 well it give them a tiny taste of what it's like to be in 1 of our despicable detainment camps for asylum seekers

Rager in the rambles tonight!

And as the MSNBC anchor pointed out, 42,000 "customers" is deceiving, since one "customer" could be a hotel. It's actually hundreds of thousands affected.

How soon before the smash and grabs start? Or someone gets hit by a car? People are darting into the dark streets trying to cross.!

Are the traffic lights working?

Kendis Gibson is terrible. Stumbling over words, transposing words, offering no insight.

He should not be anchoring this breaking news for MSNBC, or any breaking news at all.

MSNBC has brought Morgan Radford into the studio to help him.

Broadway shows performing on the street

Ana Canberra has seamlessly move into disaster reporting mode on CNN.

Omg, I would be hyperventilating in a crowded elevator by now. FDNY can't get to all of them in a timely manner. At least refugees in a Texas concentration camp have a starry nighttime sky to gaze at?

Manhole fire? Aaron Schock is in midtown tonight?

How encouraging to observe that DL survived, uninterrupted.

What if Manhattan isn't the center of the universe after all?

How is Streisand going to give her concert!?

R45, yes, David Berkowitz aka the Son of Sam.

Will there be colorful 'Midtown Strong' wristbands issued?

I blame one Donald J. Trump!

I choose to start a gofundme page!

Will all tops please report to midtown Manhattan immediately to help calm the situation & restore power!

Thought and preyerz.

Jennifer Lopez can sell out MSG? I'm in shock!

Is the outage spreading south? Thought it stopped at W40th but now MSG went dark.

I read that it was spreading

Upto 50k now.

Manhole losing its elasticity!

R88, it’s spreading, I think. Although I’d read that it ranged from 30th to 72nd.

DeBlasio is finally coming back from Iowa (chuckle) to deal with this, which makes me think it’s a little more serious than a “manhole fire”. That fucking schmuck.

CouchInvestors ‏ @CouchInvestors 2m2 minutes ago

No one on @FoxNews @CNBC or @CNN think it's ODD that the #Blackout encompasses Jeff Epstein's 9 E 71st street apartment??? #Timing???

Wonder what's going on there...🧐 #QAnons #conspiracy ??

R90, my husband and I are saying it has to be so many more people affected than 50k. A single hotel could have 1,000 occupants.

Just jumped to 61k out.

R93, the blackout isn’t affecting the Upper East Side.

Shit - now the news is saying 90,000 people are affected!

They’re counting customers (an entire hotel is one customer) not individuals.

Starting to see buildings in the west 80s going out.

I'm stuck on this escalator!

Oh sure r98, but are they all citizens?

I'm sure shitty Trump Tower has a generator that was gifted to him

I'm a tourist. Will I be dismembered and sold at Whole Foods if this lasts through the night?

Only 30k out now.

No, they're reporting 60,000 out.

Power is back in Hells Kitchen

Richard Lui went out to CNBC's HQ in New Jersey and decided to get drunk on the way.

A hundred jillion out now.

Lady on CNN now said she was at J Lo concert at MSG and it was evacuated.

CBS2 is saying power is coming back.

Holding at 30k out.

ICE began raids TODAY in NYC — a day before Trump said they'd begin.... Just as the power was out.... Coinicidink?

People were climbing off subways and hoofing the tracks back to the station

Back up to 50K.

R99, really?

Won't someone think of the frozen foods?

DeBlasio is on his way back to NYC from Iowa. LOL. He’s gonna be pissed when he gets back and the power’s back.

Good. He’s a fucking asshole. Kiss my ass, DeBlasio.

Con Ed said they will investigate why this happened - which means they don't know what caused it yet. Something about this seems off...Cuomo agrees.

MY SATURDAY NIGHT SHOW WAS INTERRUPTED BY THIS BULLSHIT! CLEARLY IT WAS A CONSPIRACY BY THE DEMOCRATS LED BY BILL & HILLARY, THE OBAMAS, PELOSI, AOC & OMAR TO SABOTAGE ME!!

R119, I agree. It wasn’t any manhole fire (LOL). People heard explosions??

And why did Lazy Bill start to come back here if it was just a transformer fire or whatever?

55th & 9th here. That was fun. Power back on now. Cheers outside sounded like NYE.

Not many r116, but yes. Also a handful just went on the east side in the 50s.

R116, sorry that sounded snotty, but it wasn’t. That is random.

Oh shit! MSNBC pulled Kendis Gibson off the anchor desk and sent him onto the street, putting Morgan Radford at the anchor desk.

Just fire the man already - he's incompetent.

Too bad SNL wasn't new this week.

EMP?

Dear Lord in Heaven!

77K out now.

Are we not gonna talk about how this is the same date as the 1977 blackout?

Con Ed CEO doesn't think a manhole fire could be responsible for this level of an outage.

Kendis just screamed. I thought. "Oh, God, what's happened."

The lights went back on at Rockefeller Center.

lights back!

Kendis needs to be escorted from the building by HR tonight.

I never heard of a power outage that knocked out power and then a a while later started spreading. And there is no way in hell this was an accident on the anniversary of the other one.

I'm sticking with the rumor that the Russian sub that caught on fire recently were messing around with internet cables on the ocean bed. Twitter the other day and then this, it is almost like, look what we can do and you can't stop us. Maybe a warning about what they can do with the election.

Does anyone know if the Beatles Still exist?

My friend Jamal & his cousin stopped by last night, and let's just say I had my own blackout.

J-Lo is definitely to blame for this black out. She probably tried to sing live with her shrill wafer-thin vocals whilst emitting a massive rice & bean fueled fart from her rhino butt.

New Yawlers! You can grab the MegaBus to Jersey City!

"This is no dream....this is really HAPPENING!!"

R135, yeah, there’s some fuckery afoot.

R136

The good one do

Man Hole Fire? Not enough lube.

Powers back but my cable box is down!

Frankie Grande caused it when everyone in his thruple’s manholes blew out

Take care DLers. Thankfully, I was not affected.

Not sure if it was posted but I read on the news that it was manhole fire that sparked the outage.

This is the first time I've ever heard such a thing happening...the way it spread all the way downtown due to manhole fire. I've lived in this city for a long time.

I think it was the hacking of power grid. By Iranians. or N. Koreans. Not Russians, maybe Russians but I put my $ on Iran or N. Korea.

They have been trying to hack our power grid for ages...

Definitely Iran a big possibility coz the USA just slapped some sanctions on them, they shot down our drone...

East side is the best side. All the billionaires are here...

So strange only west side affected....I wonder why...

It was a hacking, some kind of virus, somebody at Con Edison clicked on some fake nude video containing the malware and infected the system.

R66, Not yet, but Lee Radziwill has issued a statement.

The cast of Hadestown performed outside the theatre for the public.

Oh and don't you just love it? The cunt mayor is nowhere to be found. Fuck this cunt, I hate him so much.

was there looting?

The New York City Fire Department said the cause of the outages, which have left more than 73,000 Con Edison customers without power, was a transformer fire which started at West 64th Street and West End Avenue on the Upper West Side.

Yes, R154, its called a Broadway ticket.

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Lots of UWS random fucking, I'll bet.

Yesh r45, the Shon of Sham.

No power bottoms tonight.

Carnegie Hall was having a concert that was moved outside onto the streets. The seats were about $1000.

This happens every goddamned time I get an experimental cornea transplant!

We have plenty of power - lights, TVs, stereos, AC, etc.

I care more about Fly Over states having power outages than the cesspool Manhattan is.

Give your 24/7 New York City hate campaign a fucking rest will you?

We DON'T WANT YOU HERE!

We fully REJECT YOU! You are NOT allowed!

Had Tesla's technology been allowed by TPTB, this wouldn't be happening.

Have they started eating the rich yet?

I hace plenty of power. Lights, tv, ac. Big apartment, too. And cheap. Haha.

*have

[quote] Someone posted they were on the 29th floor with windows that don't open and no air conditioning

They could always walk down the stairs

I just saw Lucie Arnaz donated $101 to a GoFundMe to get the lights back on.

And it was all in loose change, too r172

R173, I Love Loose Change.

r171 since they didn't say where they lived maybe it wasn't safe to go out onto the dark streets

Nothing to see it's over, unlike in Chicago where I still rule

Should I throw batteries?

No, Donald, set yourself on fire and jump from the top of your building. That way, the burning fat should keep the entire city illuminated for several weeks.

[quote]Lady on CNN now said she was at J Lo concert at MSG

I guess it's true -- there really is no concept of "shame" anymore. I'd certainly be embarrassed to admit that on television.

[quote]I still have power in Washington Heights

Not as much as *I* do, baby!

[quote]Wasn't there a serial killer on the lose when the black out hit in the 70s?

Oh, dear!

Is the manhole fire out? We’re thinking of an ad campaign.

Thanks for that breaking news, r147. We don’t know what we’d do without that info since it was only about 110 posts before yours that we learned that.

Did Susan Dey lose power?

Can you imagine how many people Arlene Francis would've had murdered under cover of darkness?

[quote]Did Susan Dey lose power?

Yes, ever since L.A. Law was cancelled.

How many twinks did Aaron Tveit enjoy on his unexpected night off from Moulin Rouge?

The blackout lasted two hours, there were car accidents, people stuck in elevators and trains along with major disruptions in mass transit above and below ground.

Was that Russian test?

No, just entitled New Yorkers once again making themselves seem more important than they are.

" Blackout" is racist, because it implies something negative.

NYC is the engine that drives the economy. When even something trivial happens, THE WORLD, not only the USA, but the world is effected

"affected."

They still don't know why...

But they know for sure it's not hacking or terror related...yeah, right!

Not buying it.

I love when they say things like that.

We have no idea what happened, but we KNOW it wasn’t (this). 👀

I bet "What's My Line" would've gone on anyway. Of course, Dorothy wouldn't have been able to guess the celebrity because they wouldn't have needed to use masks because it would be pitch black anyway.

[Quote]East side is the best side. All the billionaires are here..

The West Village says high. Lots of rich people there.

[quote]The West Village says high.

Oh, dear!

The West Village IS high and has been for years.

Nearly 48 hours after the power outage that left parts of Midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side in the dark, Con Edison has released its preliminary findings on the blackout.

According to the company, an issue with its relay protection system—which should, in theory, trigger a circuit breaker should any equipment failures happen—led to the outage. “The relay protection system is designed with redundancies to provide high levels of reliability,” the company said in a statement. “In this case, primary and backup relay systems did not isolate a faulted 13,000-volt distribution cable at West 64th Street and West End Avenue.”

Initially, the company said that a “significant electrical transmission disturbance” at Con Ed’s West 49th Street substation was the cause of the outage, with that issue likely triggering additional Con Ed substations across Manhattan to go dark. But according to its preliminary findings, the damaged cable at West 64th Street was the “initiating event,” and the outages were a result of the failure of those protective systems.

At its peak, the power outage left some 72,000 New Yorkers in the dark, with subways, Broadway shows, traffic lights, and stores all affected, The blackout started around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday night, and was resolved by midnight.

“Our analysis of data and testing of the relay protection equipment is continuing, and will provide more insight into why the system, and its multiple redundancies, did not operate as designed,” Con Ed said in a statement.

Lawmakers have blasted Con Ed for the blackout in the days since the blackout happened, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo repeatedly calling the incident “unacceptable.” On Fox5NY this morning, Cuomo said, “I’m going to do an independent investigation with power experts that we have in the state to find out exactly what happened and why and we’ll get it done as quickly as possible.”

The New York Times noted that Mayor Bill de Blasio (who missed the blackout while on a campaign stop in Iowa) and Sen. Chuck Schumer have also called for an independent investigation into Con Edison’s grip on NYC’s power grid.

I work in midtown Manhattan and our phones were still down this morning.

Some people reported an underground fire as the source

Another NYC blackout is a possibility later this week when usage soars due to high heat and humidity.

Why do you people want live like that? Here in flyover you just throw open the windiws and turn on the fans- or sleep on the porch.

I can't imagine being trapped for days cooking in some highrise. Or stuck in an elevator, or a subway train.

There definitely would have been looting and a crime wave if it had gone on.

[quote]I work in midtown Manhattan and our phones were still down this morning.

???

Electric went down, not phones.

R203 = New Yorker trying to stir up insults toward non-New Yorkers.

[quote]Why do you people want live like that? Here in flyover you just throw open the windiws and turn on the fans- or sleep on the porch.

You know there are windows and balconies in NY also. And now flyoverland doesn't have elevators too?! I honestly don't get what you are even talking about.

WHY does DL attract so many insane conspiracy theorists? We've actually got a Sandy Hook denier on this thread.

R206, because the poster is a New Yorker who is pretending to be ignorant so his fellow New Yorkers will start insulting anyone who lives in another part of the country. It's too obvious, because it happens so frequently.

[quote]Here in flyover you just throw open the windiws and turn on the fans- or sleep on the porch.

There in flyover country you have fans that work during a blackout?

Is the Lower East Side still sleazy, greasy and full of hoes, like it was in Dancer From the Dance?

My sister lives in MD. There is always some blackout or other, both in winter and summer. Freezing (no heat) or sweltering (summer). She finally bought a generator. It starts when the electricity goes out. Expensive but those numerous nights in hotels weren't cheap either.

They're going to sweep this under the rug when it was so onviously a warning shot. I mean an anniversary? Get a clue people.

Russia has been gaslighting Venezuela with rolling blackouts.

I can't think of anyplace worse to be in a blackout than NYC.

I'd rather be in a blackout in NYC than with full power in Ohio, because you're still in Ohio.

R213 is a perfect example of why R 203 posted. So predictable from New York.

[quote]Here in flyover you just throw open the windiws and turn on the fans

Hilarious. I was in college in the Midwest during the 1993 flood and we had power outages pretty frequently, and my mom would say the same thing. "I know the AC doesn't work, but can't you just turn on the fan?"

Awwww. How cute, r215.

I think your mom and I would’ve gotten along swimmingly.

R215, I have two battery operated fans on hand, just in case.

The only reason this is an issue is because it affected the crybabies on the Upper West Side. During Hurricane Sandy, everybody south of 34th Street was without power for several days. THAT was serious.

their equipment was hacked. They are denying it.

[quote]During Hurricane Sandy, everybody south of 34th Street was without power for several days. THAT was serious.

Oh, I didn’t think so. I wanted to get the marathon going.

So where's your proof there was a hacking, r219?

And what did r203 prove, r214? That only NYC gets sultry in the summer? The midwest certainly does, too. This New Yorker DOES prefer NYC over Ohio. If that offends you, so be it.

This one still pales in comparison to the '03 blackout which was a BITCH!

Proof of hacking? oh c'mon...it's so obvious.

when they first held press conference...they didn't know what the cause was but straight away said it was NOT hacking or terrorism...big clue right there.

Now they reveal it was something to do with the equipment...obviously someone clicked on some malware and infected the system...that's how hacking/virus works!

Sure, Jan.^^^

Yep, I think it was a test attack. If it was a fire in a manhole alarms would have gone off straight away. The fact that they were unsure at the beginning means they did not have a talking point excuse yet. When you can say it's defiantly not A but you don't have the facts, then its obviously you are making shit up since you don't have any facts for your assertion.

One doesn’t have to say definitively what something is in order to say they know what it’s not.

A woman found dead in a swimming pool. Was it an accidental drowning? Did she have a heart attack and subsequently fall in the pool? Did someone drown her? We don’t know. We DO know it wasn’t gunshot wounds.

R226, for DLers , she died of an overdose.

City on fire!!!!

Conspiracy theorists are so sure--and so tiresome.

"then its obviously you are making shit up since you don't have any facts for your assertion."

r225, your words perfectly apply to yourself.

I was in my office Monday morning R204 without phone service. It was not fully on all floors until the afternoon.

Believe what you want.

The CT spaz was hilarious.

" Manhole" is a sexist term expressing male privilege. We are changing the term to "road vagina."

R231, please don’t think I didn’t believe you. That’s not what I meant. I should’ve spelled it out. Let me try again:

Your phones are down, too? I thought it was only electric out.

R227, Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead on November 8, 1965. The famous east coast blackout occurred on November 9, 1965.

Coincidence?

Oh I think not, r235.

[quote]Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead

Was she wearing her trademark mask?

And where was Kitty Carlisle on that night? And who was she with? And more importantly, what was she wearing?

The reason I think this is a hack is because I noticed heavy security in the subway by my workplace.

They must have suspected this was a hack from Iran and think they are up to more shit.

Yes, usually around holidays and anniversaries, you see extra police in the subways.

There is no special occasion, but I saw them inside the station and also outside the station. And now as I left work, I saw 2 policemen just walking around in the middle of the night...maybe this is just a coincidence but I don't think so...

R238, I noted the same . I've seen the K9 units on patrol and it freaked me the fuck out.

Babe at r237:

C’mon! Play the game right. You only get one question at a time so I have time to make a long-winded explanation so as not to answer the question.

Get over yourselves, New Yorkers

Don't worry, r241--not all of us New Yorkers subscribe to ridiculous conspiracy theories.

No threads on the subway shutdown yesterday?

yes, they had a problem with the equipment...hmmm....

Only the great unwashed masses (read: unimportant) take the subway. We don’t care there’s a problem there.

What if it was a Russian hack and the current hack of the FSB is payback from the U.S.?