{"id":256485,"date":"2025-09-26T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256485\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:14:09","slug":"see-photos-and-video-of-grand-central-station-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256485\/","title":{"rendered":"See photos and video of Grand Central station power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grand Central Terminal in New York City’s power outage rattled commuters. Photographers captured the eerie scenes.<\/p>\n

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Power goes out at New York’s Grand Central Station during commute<\/p>\n

Grand Central Station in New York experienced a one-hour power outage after a voltage drop. No train services were affected.<\/p>\n

The lights went out at New York City’s Grand Central Station<\/a> on Thursday, Sept. 25, leaving crowds of commuters in the dark.<\/p>\n

The station off 42nd Street in Manhattan experienced a nearly one-hour power outage<\/a> after a voltage drop, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).<\/p>\n

The power went out at 8:28 a.m., the MTA reported.<\/p>\n

No train services were affected, officials said.<\/p>\n

Photos from the scene show commuters in the dark inside the station, as well as Con Edison trucks outside the station terminal after the blackout.<\/p>\n

Photos after NYC\u2019s Grand Central station loses power<\/p>\n

The MTA reported\u00a0power\u00a0was\u00a0restored\u00a0to the terminal’s upper level just after 8:50 p.m. local time and to the lower level just after 9:15 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n

“Five Metro-North Railroad employees were briefly in elevators stopped without electricity, until doors were opened and emergency generators activated,” MTA reported. The cause of the blackout was under investigation.<\/p>\n

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grand Central Terminal in New York City’s power outage rattled commuters. Photographers captured the eerie scenes. Power goes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":256486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[647,5229,18393,10891,19615,135007,135009,20342,95584,24071,69952,46254,16671,425,4297,728,20341,20346,644,663,451,938,948,635,405,403,50,5226,5225,940,949,5228,5227,8745,450,457,449,6172,7053,20343,69953,6228,135008,645,135006,448,447,456,19614,11900,1164,939,992,646,67,586,132,5230,941,8157,20345,68,2969,989,636],"class_list":["post-256485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-affiliate","tag-america","tag-bus","tag-central","tag-commuters","tag-consolidated","tag-consolidated-edison","tag-distance","tag-edison","tag-electricity","tag-freight","tag-grand","tag-grand-central-terminal","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-travel","tag-local-news","tag-long","tag-long-distance-bus-u0026-rail","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-negative","tag-network","tag-network-trending","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-now","tag-now-universal","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-outages","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-point","tag-power","tag-power-outages","tag-rail","tag-rail-freight","tag-service","tag-service-outages","tag-story","tag-terminal","tag-the","tag-to","tag-to-the-point","tag-trains","tag-transit","tag-travel","tag-trending","tag-trending-video","tag-u0026","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-universal","tag-urban","tag-urban-transit","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-video","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}