Metro

Power fails at NYU hospital, 200 patients evacuate

All 300 in-patients at NYU Langone in Manhattan have been evacuated to uptown hospitals, officials said.

The Kips Bay facility lost power last night and its backup generator failed after water — which is still at a height of 6 feet — flooded the generator room. The lack of power sparked the lengthy and challenging overnight evacuation.

With no more patients on site, focus shifted to alerting families of their loved ones’ new locations at any of five hospitals — Mount Sinai, St. Lukes, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, NY Presbyterian and Long Island Jewish.

“Every patient who left here is safe,” said spokeswoman Allison Clair. “There was not one person who was injured leaving.”

Evacuating patients had hours of battery life on their life-sustaining devices, she said, and staff, emergency workers and volunteers labored throughout the night to move the sick.

Inside the main hospital building at 30th St. and First, more than 100 medical, maintenance, security and other personnel who had spent the night working were trying to get home, hampered by the subway shutdown and lack of cabs.

“It’s a city in there, really,” said operating room nurse Ariel Wolinsky. “It’s organized chaos. All scheduled surgeries are cancelled and we can’t do any emergency surgeries either.”