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.
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The Q train, stalled at the 86th Street station on the 2nd Avenue subway line, after a power outage on June 2, 2017.
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.
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."
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From the outside the station still looks shiny and new on Feb. 1, 2017, the glass unmarred by pigeon poop.
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Perhaps they knew we were coming. In the bowels of the station, cleanliness could not be faulted; even the handrails shone.
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A strong smell of cleaning products and bleach permeated the station.
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The most populous group at the stop was the cleaning staff, who were stationed diligently with mops and buckets at the ready. They were doing a great job; almost nothing was out of place.
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Even the rubbish bins were polished to a gleaming finish.
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No graffiti on this wall.
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Several police officers also patrolled the platforms. Just a day before its one-month anniversary a man was found dead on a train at the new station. Initial indications were he died of natural causes.
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This piece of rubbish is newsworthy. It was literally the only piece of detriment we were able to find at the 96th Street stop on Wednesday.
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There seemed to be sections of ongoing construction at the station, but most of the elevators and escalators were working.
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It is true that there appear to be little holes that look like the perfect places for rats to nestle, but if they were there on Wednesday, they had been told by management to hide.
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The tracks are in sparkling condition. There was barely a scrap of rubbish down there -- perhaps the MTA’s campaign to encourage people not to throw trash on the tracks is paying off.
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The newsstand still isn't open, but there was barely time to grab a newspaper anyway. The train service was efficient, allowing us to travel from 96th Street to Rockefeller Center in less than 20 minutes, when previous trips had taken around an hour.
