The West Side of Manhattan in New York City experienced a power failure on July 13, 2019, at approximately 7 p.m. EDT.

It affected six power sectors and encompassed an approximately 30-block area in Midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side, from Times Square to 72nd Street, and from Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River.

[1][4] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) reported that the entire New York City Subway system was affected by the outage.

[9] Areas affected by the outage included Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, and Broadway theatres.

[8] In the early stages of the incident, Con Edison attributed the outage to a mechanical failure that it felt could be resolved relatively quickly, but did not give an estimate on when power would be restored.

[1] By the end of the month, Con Edison released a statement on their findings, which determined that a flawed connection between sensors and protective relays at the 65th Street substation caused the relay protection system to not detect and isolate a faulted 13,000 volt distribution cable at West 64th Street and West End Avenue.

He called for an investigation by New York's Department of Public Service to identify the cause of the outages, and to "prevent an incident of this magnitude from happening again".