Power Restored After Manhattan Outage Leaves Tens of Thousands in the Dark

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NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A massive power outage hit Manhattan on Saturday evening, plunging tens of thousands of people into darkness, with outages reported across a more than 30-block radius for about five hours—42 years to the day after the historic 1977 blackout.