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| Power failure halts New York subway trains | Power failure halts New York subway trains |
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| A power failure in New York has halted subway trains and trapped people in lifts. | A power failure in New York has halted subway trains and trapped people in lifts. |
| The New York Fire Department said it was tackling a fire in an electrical transformer in Manhattan, the most densely populated of the city's five boroughs. | The New York Fire Department said it was tackling a fire in an electrical transformer in Manhattan, the most densely populated of the city's five boroughs. |
| Street lights and traffic lights have been put out of action. | Street lights and traffic lights have been put out of action. |
| The local energy company Con Edison said about 42,000 people had been deprived of power. | |
| The cuts are affecting the Upper West Side of Manhattan between 40th and 72th Streets between Fifth Avenue and the Hudson River, an area which includes the Broadway theatre district. | |
| A number of Saturday night shows were delayed, with theatregoers left waiting in the streets outside venues. | |
| The cast of the musical Hadestown entertained people waiting outside the Walter Kerr Theatre. | |
| The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) advised travellers to avoid sub-surface trains, after some passengers were stranded below ground for over an hour. | |
| "We were stuck for about 75 minutes," Jeff O'Malley, 57, told Reuters news agency. "It's completely dark, people were coming up using their flashlights on their phones." | |
| The electricity cuts come on the anniversary of a massive power failure in 1977 that plunged the New York skyline into darkness and triggered widespread looting and arson. | The electricity cuts come on the anniversary of a massive power failure in 1977 that plunged the New York skyline into darkness and triggered widespread looting and arson. |