New York Power Outage Grinds Manhattan To A Halt

(The Sun) A MAJOR power outage in New York last night saw Manhattan ground to a halt - EXACTLY 42 years after a major blackout in 1977. Broadway shows were cancelled and subway trains were stuck in eerie pitch-black stations after electricity went down at around 7:00pm local time (12:00am BST). More than 40000 homes and business were without power for five hours in the busy Midtown district - affecting millions of New Yorkers. The area is home to dozens of theatres and the Times Square tourist hotspot - which was also plunged into darkness.