[finnman69]

Feel free to add other pics.

[CarmelValleyite]

It appears they all got through it, but sure doesn't look like a real good time!

[mrtysmm]

Great pictures....TY

[finnman69]

Guests at the Renaissance Hotel wait out the power failure on Seventh Avenue today.

Aug. 14: The darkened New York City skyline contrasts with a twilight sky.

Aug. 14: Passengers stand while stranded on a subway train in New York City.

Aug. 14: Pedestrians and vehicles cross New York's Brooklyn Bridge after a massive power outage.

Aug. 14: The Empire State Building looms over a darkened New York City skyline.

Aug. 14: Passengers climb down from a subway train in New York City.

Aug. 14: New Yorkers ride a public bus amid darkened buildings in Manhattan.

Aug. 14: Thousands of pedestrians make their way onto the 59th Street Queensborough Bridge in Manhattan.

A taxi moves down Broadway through a dark Times Square at dawn on Friday.

A woman stranded in New York's Grand Central Terminal finds a place to sleep on a countertop early Friday.

[CaptRon]

Friend of mine got home today at 12:45 PM. Slept in some lobby.

[Lady Jag]

Great photos, thanks! It is great to finally see some human interest shots of the blackout.

[GSWarrior]

Can you imagine being trapped in an elevator or in the underground without any idea of what is going on?

[smiley]

Excellent pictures and excellent job in letting us know how lucky we are out here in the heartland!

[Pest]

bump

[kayak]

Great pics! Ping lists, anyone?

[Lady Jag]

It's where people ended up for the night that gets me. I cannot imagine sleeping on the post office steps of NYC on a hot summer pitch black night with a few hundred sweaty strangers.

Commuters sleep on the steps of the General Post Office in New York early Friday morning, Aug. 15, 2003 after being stranded because of the city's electrical blackout. The blackout, which affected everything from trains to mobile phones, occurred across much of northeastern United States and parts of Canada.

[RaceBannon]

Now, quick, post a pic of nothing but BLACKNESS, and that is what I thought i was going to see on a thread about a blackout!

This could have been better thread than any cheese thread...

[Mo1]

Good Thread ... a sign of what amazing folks NYer's are to deal with such a stressful day and night

[Uncle Miltie]

Mass Transit Rules!

(not)

[Jhensy]

I detailed my night elsewhere, but I just got home to Westchester an hour ago. Slept on the floor in my office, with a pillow made of balled-up secretary's sweaters taken from the backs of their chairs (don't tell them).

Those shots of average folk forced to sleep on the sidewalk or in the gutter were no lie, just multiply them a thousand-fold. Grand Central Terminal looked like that wounded scene in Gone With the Wind, where the camera pulls back on all those soldiers.

The terrible legacy this morning was the stench of sweat and, um, 'bathroom' odor on the sidewalks, because there was absolutely no place for anyone (man, woman or child) to do their thing. Last night SUCKED, to put it mildly.

I finally caught a train home around 1:30 today, and after my wife refused to hug or kiss me (then put my clothes in the washer with a stick), I took the longest shower of my life and dried off by pressing my body all over that greatest invention in human history, the air conditioner. The working air conditioner, that is.

[sarasota]

That photo is stunning. Thanks.

[PianoMan]

BTTT

[NYC GOP Chick]

The zoom lens view from the 5th-floor deck of my building, looking at the masses of people walking right up the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Of course, Mayor Doofus stood in the middle of the bridge to shake people's hands and get some face time, but only served to block foot traffic and got heckled for it, from what I understand.

[PoorMuttly]

Since being trapped in a brutally hot subway car himself many years ago, Muttly has not ventured out of his lair without at least a good knife and flashlight on his person. What one finds in darkened subway tunnels can border on the unpleasant.

[Eaker]

Neat pic pingaroo!!

[finnman69]

"Whatcha think Bob? I dunno Phil...."

A Con Edison crew works on restoring power in the Manhattan borough of New York, Friday, Aug. 15, 2003 after a massive power blackout in the Northeastern United States. The lights started to flicker back on Friday after a massive power outage that closed city subways and trains, left millions in stifling heat and killed at least one person (AP Photo/J. David Ake)