On Thursday, September 25th, Grand Central Terminal experienced a total blackout roughly around 8:30pm, just a few hours after the evening rush hour commute. At the time of publication, 10:30pm on Thursday, neither the MTA nor NYC Mayor Eric Adams tweeted about the blackout or provided an update on the cause online.
Grand Central Power outage — everything we know so far
The haunting scene (which you can see for yourself below) looked straight out of a horror movie, but fortunately, the outage only lasted about 30 minutes and commuters were using lights from their cellphones to guide them.
Although transit service wasn’t interrupted and power is now restored, ABC News reported that five people were stuck in an elevator at the time of the outage.
NYC Emergency Management tweeted,
Power has been fully restored at Grand Central Terminal. All elevators have been cleared and all occupants safely removed.
There is no impact to subway, Metro-North, or LIRR service. Transit is operating normally.
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ABC News added that the train station was operating on a backup generator. A cause for the 30-minute blackout are not yet known. Although the Metro-North, Long Island Railroad, and NYC subways are operating normally after the brief period of darkness, we wouldn’t blame you if you decided to take an Uber home this evening.
This is a developing story. Please stay tuned for updates.