The power outage comes 42 years to the day after The Great Blackout of 1977, which left most of New York City without electricity. Here's what we know about Saturday's widespread blackout.

One consequence of New York City's Saturday night blackout: It shined a bright spotlight on the long-running feud between two prominent Democrats, the city's mayor and the state's governor.

Based on the more than 1.2 million tons of food waste generated by New York City in a given year, roughly 29 tons of food was possibly tossed as a result of Saturday's blackout, says Justin Wood ...

There are a lot of places New York City mayors want to be when widespread power outages strike. Waterloo, Iowa, is not one of them. And yet, there was Mayor Bill de Blasio on Saturday night ...

In the blackout region, 21 power plants shut down, affecting Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Newark and Ottawa, Canada. It was 4:11 p.m. when the lights went out in New York.

De Blasio made it back to the city on Sunday, but the mayor drew heavy criticism for being absent during the blackout. On Monday, the New York Post called for Cuomo to take steps to remove de ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Part of New York City's subway system lost power in Saturday night's mass blackout, ... Streetlights went out along the West Side Highway during a blackout on July 13, 2019.

NEW YORK, NY - JULY 13: A large section of Manhattan's Upper West Side and Midtown neighborhoods are seen in darkness from above during a major power outage on July 13, 2019 in New York City.

Con Edison, New York’s energy company, released a statement Monday about its investigation into the cause of the Manhattan power outage, which affected thousands on the island’s west side for ...

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Worried engineers at the New York Power Pool’s brick building in Schenectady cut city voltage, first by 5%, then 8%. They dimmed the lights in Mount Vernon, then in Elmsford. But it was too late.