The crippling outage occurred on the anniversary of the 1977 blackout A power failure swept the west side of Manhattan Saturday evening, at one point leaving more than 60,000 customers without power, according to Con Edison. Power was restored to all customers just before midnight. Officials say a transformer fire may have caused the outage at 6:47 p.m., plunging subway stations, Broadway theaters, and businesses in the heart of New York City into darkness. Traffic signals shut off and the incandescent lights of Time Square-42nd Street dimmed. Con Edison says power was disrupted at six Manhattan substations. “We experienced a …

Catch the Pride March in Manhattan without leaving your apartment This year’s NYC Pride March promises to be one of, if not the, biggest events of the year: For the first time, New York is playing host to WorldPride, the annual celebration of LGBTQ communities around the world. More than 550 organizations participated in last year’s Pride March, and it’s likely to be even bigger this year: According to the NYPD, an additional three to four million people are expected to head to the various Pride festivities happening over the weekend (and spilling over into next week, when the Fourth of July happens). That also means the Pride March is likely to be even more packed with…

The flower, whose stench is similar to that of “rotting meat,” will bloom sometime this month The new Roberto Burle Marx exhibit isn’t the only reason to plan a pilgrimage to the New York Botanical Garden in the next few weeks. The Bronx green space will once again play host to a rare, incredibly stinky Amorphophallus titanum—better known as a corpse flower, which is native to Sumatra—which is on view at the garden’s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory as of today. (Just in time for summer, when the city is already immersed in a funk of undetermined origin.) Each flower …