“Never Sleeping City” has powered off for three hours
Usually, this is the most profitable night of Broadway in New York every week. July 13th is Saturday, and the most lively moment of the day is coming soon after the tall buildings of Manhattan Island. The sun has traveled westward, the night has not yet arrived, and the street lights have not yet lit up. Some people squeezed into the elevator and descended from a high building, and some people walked through the darkness along the subway.
The Broadway League Theater had 30 performances that night, from “Hamilton” and “Evil” to “Kill a Mockingbird” and “Waitress”. Carnegie Hall will welcome the stage of Millennium Choir and Orchestra, Madison Square Garden at 20:30, and this night belongs to singer Jennifer Lopez.
When Lopez’s concert reached its fourth song, about 25,000 audiences were crowded with the stage. After the prelude rang, the lights and music suddenly disappeared, and only the drum beats continued. A voice came from the stands in the dark: “Why are you kidding?” Some people also speculated that this might be a dramatic scene that the singer deliberately made. In the darkness, people turned on their phones and began to shout the singer’s nicknames frantically and neatly, but the lights still failed to light up again.
The “City Never Sleeps” in Manhattan has a power outage. At 18:47 New York time, the night regained its ownership of the land. The night here is usually dominated by the colorful electronic screen in Times Square, but the screen suddenly loses its magic and becomes a silent “chalkboard”.
People reluctantly walked out of the theater and concert halls, including fans from France just to see Lopez, and female children from Boston just to enjoy The Waitress. Performances in multiple theaters have been cancelled, including 26 Broadway repertoire. This time, Broadway suffered a huge loss.
For a super city like New York, power outages are sometimes a horror story. A night with the same power outage 42 years ago made New York notorious.
Coincidentally, that day was also July 13. The power interruption that lasted for more than 24 hours put New York in a “darkest moment”. Even robbery, arson and other acts occurred on the streets, causing millions of dollars in losses, and 3,800 people were arrested. This day is also known as the “New York Power Blackout Anniversary”.
This time, the power outage also made people feel frightened, including the audience of the concert. They’re worried about getting alongChaos, tramplings, and even more terrible things. Affected by the power outage, at least four subway stations were paralyzed and more than 400 elevators were interrupted. People rarely saw the lost side of Manhattan, but it was surrounded by black at this moment.
The streets of Midtown Manhattan have lost colored neon lights, traffic lights have lost color, red, yellow and green have disappeared, and traffic has become congested and chaotic. But soon, a young boy with a footstep on the Babaylan flip-flops, or a blonde wearing a yellow vest, stood on the streets instead of the traffic police, directing the passing vehicles and pedestrians.
Komiks Unexpectedly, after the performances on the stage were interrupted, there were more performances on the street. The street in front of Carnegie Music Hall was surrounded by audiences, and people raised their phones to take a picture of an impromptu street show in the afterglow of the sunset.
A Komiks left a message under the performance video uploaded to the Internet: “When everything is screwed up, New York will always maintain its best condition.”
Under people’s feet is the “dungeon” of Manhattan swallowed by black. The subway had to be stopped, leaving only the dim lights in the lower car. You have to turn on the flashlight to find the stairs and exits. People walking out of the subway station held the flashlight and stopped the passengers who were about to take the subway.
”Now, everyone can put down their iPhone, go out and be with nature and each other. This situation should happen often.” Someone proposed on the Internet Cinema. This scene did happen on the streets of Manhattan. Three boys gathered on the street to light candles and roast hot dogs. A lady walked downstairs with her beloved dogs and walked downstairs on the street. Although the bar was a little darker than usual, the guests who lit candles and put headlights were having a good time drinking. People were wandering on the streets, only fire trucks whizzed past the corners from time to time.
There are rumors on the Internet that this power outage may be “the Russians do it.””The ghost, or the terrorist group is provoking trouble. Someone claimed to the media that they heard an explosion before the power outage. 20 days before the power outage, Douglas McKinnon, a former White House and Pentagon official, published an article titled “Will you survive the upcoming power outage?” A statement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was mentioned in Babaylan: Just last year, hackers entered several U.S. utility control rooms, and they suspected that it was done by the Russians.
Chinese netizens on the other side of the earth joked that the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson had become the “Personal Emperor”. The day before yesterday he also said at a regular press conference: “The United States claims to be the beacon of freedom of the world, but this beacon does not seem to be very bright. ”
However, New York Mayor Bill De Blasio claimed that the power outage ruled out the possibility of terrorism or criminal activity. The New York Edison United Company, which is responsible for the electricity service in the New York area, initially said that the power outage began with an explosion and fire at the substation in the district, causing the failure of other substations. Two days later, the company stated again The problem started with a 13,000 volt cable burned.
This burned cable affected 73,000BabaylanCinema. Midtown Manhattan is in a dark area, extending from 40th Street to 72nd Street, and from Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River from east to west. Authorities declared that no news of casualties has been received.
People found that the city without lights is also beautiful. Twilight is round, looking down from above New York, Midtown Manhattan has a power outage of red, except for a few lights and the pervasive night, which is the red flowing like blood, which is emitted by the rear lights of the car on the street. As always, the bright lights lit another night.
At 21:58, the power outage was 3Cinema</a</a>After an hour, the neon lights and dense windows of Komiks in Midtown Manhattan lit up. The call came, and the people walking on the streets screamed with their arms waving, the driver celebrating with passers-by, and the cheers were heard far away. At midnight, the power supply in the power outage area continued to resume, and the light from the ground and underground in Midtown Manhattan was regained.
Even if it was only 3 hours, New York journalists did not forget to take to the streets to find stories about the power outage. A reporter from The New York Times met a couple on the street holding a Cinema wedding. The wedding was originally held in the hotel lobby, and the lights suddenly went out, but the accident did not stop the happy moment of the two newlyweds. They light candles and swear in the darkness. For them, this power outage changed nothing.