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New York is on E right now, as many in the Big Apple and New Jersey wait on massive lines for gas at stations around the Tri-State area.

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Drivers were idling in epic lines, while fuel-strapped stations were forced to turn away customers. At pumps throughout the city, commuters were met with the same infuriating sign: no gas.

As reported by the New York Daily News:

Orhan Gunay, a worker at a BP on Fourth Ave. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn said: 

“We had lines stretching down the street. People were coming from New Jersey and filling up containers. I’ve never seen anything like it,” 

The station had been dry since Wednesday morning — but the big signs advertising the shortage failed to deter desperate drivers.

Cops presided over the pumps, but gas rage still boiled over in the afternoon in Eastchester, Westchester County, where police arrested a man after he got into an argument with a Pelham woman at a packed Mobil station on New Rochelle Rd. over their place in line, witnesses said.

There were even reports of people pulling out guns on gas lines, after someone tweeted that the Hess gas station in Long Island City had closed because of fighting.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says 35-year-old Sean Bailey, of Queens, was arrested on charges of menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. It wasn’t clear whether he had a lawyer.

It’s important for everyone to keep a cool head as the parts of the Tri-State area get back to some form of normalcy during this time of crisis.

SOURCE: NYDN, CBS News