What to Know
- Two power outages knocked out service on the Second Avenue Subway Friday afternoon
- The first lasted just 10 minutes but the second outage was at least an hour
- Con Edison said the outage was not on their end
Power went out twice Friday morning on the Second Avenue subway, stranding riders on the new, multibillion-dollar line with no immediate explanation why.
The initial power outage knocked out service between the 57th Street-7th Avenue station and 96th Street on the Q and W lines for about 10 minutes, and forced some northbound Q and W trains to terminate at Times Square or 57th Street-7th Avenue.
The MTA said on Twitter at 10:48 a.m. that service had resumed, and then tweeted again at 11 a.m. that service was back out. The second outage lingered for a little more than two hours.
The transit agency confirmed the outages to NBC 4 New York and said the cause was not clear.
Photos on social media showed dark, empty trains sitting idle at the 86th Street station. Con Edison said the power failure was not on their end.
Local
Power problems have plagued the subway in recent weeks, stranding some riders for hours.
One straphanger got stuck on a Q train at 86th Street, tweeting that the air conditioning shut down and that half the lights were off. He told NBC 4 New York over Twitter it took workers 15 minutes to manually open the train doors.
"Bigger problem was lack of info and coordination," he tweeted. "No announcement nor MTA employees directing incoming passengers."
