A major power outage hit Manhattan Saturday evening, hitting Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Upper West Side, subways and Broadway theaters. But power was almost completely restored by the end of the night.
A spokesman for electric company Con Edison said that more than 42,000 were without power as of 8 p.m. ET. A fire at an electricity transformer was the cause of the outage, Fire Department of New York officials said.
Con Edison said around 11 p.m. that it hoped to have all power restored by midnight. At about 11:30 p.m., the company said power had been restored to all but about 9,700 customers.