New York City tried to regain its footing Sunday after the restoration of power from a massive blackout late into Saturday night amid questions of how the outage happened.
Utility company Con Edison said in a statement the final impacted customers from the outage – which affected more than 72,000 customers along 30 blocks from Times Square to the Upper West Side – had their power restored just before midnight after blackouts that began around 7 p.m. Saturday.
"With all customers back in service, the company will focus on investigating the cause of the equipment failures and on getting the electrical-delivery system back to its normal level of reliability," the company said in a statement.
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The outage, which came 42 years to the day after The Great Blackout of 1977 dimmed most of Manhattan, shut down Broadway shows and a Jennifer Lopez concert at Madison Square Garden, gridlocked streets as drivers attempted to navigate without traffic lights and left stunned tourists and residents wandering darkened sidewalks.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who deployed New York state troopers Saturday evening, has directed an investigation into the cause of the outage. Mayor Bill de Blasio said police confirmed there was no foul play involved and that the outage was caused by a "mechanical issue."
“You just can’t have a power outage of this magnitude in this city” Cuomo said, calling the outage "unacceptable."
“It is too dangerous, the potential for public safety risk and chaos is too high, we just can’t have a system that does that, it’s that simple at the end of the day,” he said.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the outage caused “extensive delays on many subway lines.”
"Thank you all for sticking with us tonight," the subway service tweeted Saturday. "Thank you to the thousands of public servants across New York City who worked hard to get everything back the way it should be for everyone. Have a good night and take care."
Contributing: The Associated Press
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