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.
Images taken by a NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellite showing light coverage in the northeastern United States on a normal night (L), at 9:21 PM Eastern time on August 13, 2003, and after a massive blackout affected much of the area (R), shown at 9:03 PM Eastern time on August 14, showing the relative lack of lights due to the power outage. Millions of Americans and Canadians slowly recovered from the largest power outage in North American history Friday, as President George W. Bush (news - web sites) called the blackout a 'wake up call' and urged the modernization of antiquated electricity infrastructure. Officials were trying to pinpoint the cause of the breakdown and to discover how it cascaded so quickly through much of the northeastern United States and the Canadian province of Ontario, knocking New York City, Detroit, Cleveland, Ottawa, Toronto and a host of smaller cities back into the pre-electric age. REUTERS/NOAA-Handout
Thanks for the pix. I think I might have been on that Weehawken ferry shuttle bus.