9 photos show a mysterious city during a power outage in New York

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A widespread blackout Saturday night left much of Manhattan, including the Upper West Side and the Rockefeller Center, without electricity.
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Thousands of people in New York remained in the dark on Saturday after a massive blackout had dimmed the lights in much of Manhattan.

Public utility company Con Edison said Sunday that the final touched customers of the blackout – which had touched over 72,000 customers across 30 blocks of Times Square on the Upper West Side – had seen their electricity restored.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who deployed soldiers from the state of New York during the outage, said Sunday that he was going to inspect the transformer that caused the power outage with Con's president. Edison, John McAvoy, to understand exactly what happened.

The power outage ended Broadway shows and a Jennifer Lopez concert at Madison Square Garden, cobblestone streets, while drivers tried to navigate without traffic lights and left tourists stunned and residents wandering on the streets. darkened sidewalks.

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Here are 9 photos of the brief darkness of New York, still strangely dark.

Seen from the sky, much of the neighborhoods of the Upper West Side and Midtown Manhattan are plunged into darkness during the partial blackout. (Photo: Scott Heins, Getty Images)

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