NEW YORK – A Con Edison power outage caused issues citywide overnight, with reports of people stuck in elevators and delays on the subway.

CBS New York's John Dias reported from the Con Edison substation in Downtown Brooklyn where it all started.

"This incident caused brief power drops citywide and led to increased calls regarding elevator malfunctions and disruptions in MTA subway service," Mayor Eric Adams said Friday morning.

The Con Ed president was on the scene early Friday where he told reporters there was a very brief power outage for just a fraction of a second, but he suspects nearly every single home across the five boroughs, as well as Long Island and Westchester County, were impacted.

"The electrical system for all of, really, North America is interconnected, so the power that flows here is also interconnected to the systems that serve Long Island and Westchester County," Con Edison President Matt Ketschke told Dias.

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