When a massive blackout plunged much of Manhattan into darkness on Saturday even...
NEW YORK - When a massive blackout plunged much of Manhattan into darkness on Saturday evening, a choir and the casts of Broadway musicals entertained tourists with impromptu performances in the street.
“I guess this is what they call a New York moment,” she wrote on Twitter with a video of a choir singing at sunset. “I emerged to see dark restaurants & traffic lights, civilians directing traffic, & an evacuated Carnegie Hall concert happening in the street.” One middle-aged man in shorts and a red tank-top managed the flow of vehicles at one junction for at least 45 minutes, drawing plaudits on social media.
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