A power failure plunged a stretch of the West Side of Manhattan into darkness on Saturday night, trapping thousands of people in subways and elevators for a time, leaving drivers to fend for themselves at intersections with no traffic signals and eerily dimming the lights of a swath of Times Square. Stores emptied out, and Broadway ... The New York City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, said on Twitter that there had been a “major disturbance” at that substation and that the utility was working to fix it. The Metropolitan ...

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