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The NYPD recommended that people visiting NYC for New Year's take public transportation, but early this morning, about some passengers on Metro-North got to welcome a little 2009 commuter frustration. The AP reports, "About 150 passengers have been rescued from two disabled commuter trains coming from New York that lost heat and electricity in a nearly three-hour ordeal" that started at 3:40 a.m. It's believed "several thousand feet of overhead wires that send power to the trains became entangled and torn, cutting off power" to the trains between Bridgeport and Stratford. And because it took some time to lift and secure the wires, the rescue didn't start until 6:25 a.m.