Thursday's blackout found me having to get from the Bronx to Brooklyn. I leave work daily a little before 4:15, so I was headed out the door when the power went down. I walked to the train station at 161st St./Yankee Stadium, only to find the trains not running. So along with a group of co-workers, I boarded the Bx113 to Washington Heights in Manhattan, where we'd supposedly be able to catch an M5 bus to Houston St. [more in link]