The mayor ruled out "external influences" as a cause for the outage.
With more than 40,000 New Yorkers hit by a power outage Saturday, Mayor Bill de Blasio faced a national campaigner's dilemma: stay on the campaign trail or return home to deal with the emergency.
By 10 p.m., de Blasio had made the decision to return to New York, according to his press secretary Freddi Goldstein.Earlier, De Blasio told reporters he was in touch with police and emergency management commissioners and ruled out "external influences" as a cause for the outage. ".@NYCEmergencyMgt is working with the NYPD, FDNY and city agencies to respond to power outages in Manhattan due to a manhole fire earlier this evening. Disruption is significant. We’ll have further updates soon — please follow @NotifyNYC." de Blasio tweeted earlier.
"While fortunately no injuries occurred as a result of this incident, the fact that it happened at all is unacceptable," de Blasio said."NYPD has confirmed that there’s no foul play. This was a mechanical issue," de Blasio wrote.
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