Pedestrians walk along Broadway in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood Thursday night as two New York City police officers, silhouetted at right, burn a flare and stand watch outside a Banco Popular bank branch.
The sun rises over the skyline of the Upper West Side of Manhattan as seen from Weehawken, N.J., on Friday.
Stranded commuters wait in the darkened entrance of Grand Central Station on Thursday.
People make their way down a darkened stairway at an office building in Newark, N.J., Thursday. The widespread power outage stopped the elevators.
Tomas Andreda, left, and Nancy Acosta, center, were among those who turned to a pay phone to call family from after the blackout hit New York City on Thursday.
Traffic trying to leave New York City crawls up Lexington Avenue after the blackout hit Thursday afternoon.
People scrambled at a hardware store in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, hoping to power their flashlights before nightfall.
People flock over the Brooklyn Bridge during the outage in New York on Thursday.
A police officer carries a child as transit officials and police help passengers walk along subway tracks at the Shea Stadium/Willets Point subway station in the Queens borough of New York on Thursday.
People attempt to board the back of a crowded Manhattan bus during the power outage in New York on Thursday. Buses were packed to capacity after the subway lines closed down due to the outage.
The Upper West Side of Manhattan is seen from a Weehawken, N.J., park Thursday after the largest power blackout in U.S. history rolled across a vast swath of the northern United States and southern Canada.