The trapped riders were eventually led off the stalled trains by firefighters into dark subway tunnels and up service stairways that led to trapdoors in the middle of Brooklyn sidewalks.

Subway riders were experiencing a variety of delays across New York City's transit system on Thursday morning, after some had a hellish commute the night before due to power loss that left them stuck in tunnels for hours, according to MTA information and multiple reports from commuters.

Thousands of passengers were evacuated from two subway trains stuck in Brooklyn after a power failure Wednesday evening, MTA officials said. The power failure occurred between the Jay Street–MetroTech station and the Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station around 5:30 p.