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		</div><p>New York’s Times Square fell dark and subway trains halted as Manhattan was struck by a power cut.</p>
<p>Authorities scrambled to restore electricity to Manhattan following a power outage which darkened marquees in the theatre district and left businesses without electricity.</p>
<p>The New York City Fire Department said a transformer fire on Saturday evening at West 64th Street and West End Avenue affected more than 44,000 customers along a 30-block stretch from Times Square to about 72nd Street and Broadway.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are working to restore power to 42,000 customers primarily in the Westside of Manhattan. We will provide updates as we receive them. Thank you.</p>
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<p>Officials with Con Edison later tweeted that they were working to restore electricity to customers and businesses primarily on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.</p>
<p>Power reportedly went out early Saturday evening at much of Rockefeller Centre and reached the Upper West Side.</p>
<p>At Rockefeller Centre, traffic lights were out while some buildings in Rockefeller Plaza had lights on and others were dark.</p>
<p>The outage comes on the anniversary of the 1977 New York City outage that left most of the city without power.</p>
<p>Many Broadway musicals and plays cancelled their Saturday evening shows, including Hadestown, which last month won the Tony Award for best musical.</p>
<p>Several cast members from the show put on an impromptu performance in the street outside the theatre for disappointed audience members.</p>
<p>Emily Totero, 30, planned to bring out-of-town guests to see Moulin Rouge, but once they got to the theatre district, they saw the power go out.</p>
<p><em>“You could see all the theatre lights across the street, all the marquees went out. That’s what we noticed first,”</em> she said.</p>
<p>Some shows like Frozen were among the Broadway shows to announce it had cancelled performances.</p>
<p>When the lights went out early on Saturday evening, thousands of people streamed out of darkened Manhattan buildings, crowding Broadway next to bumper-to-bumper traffic.</p>
<p>People in Hell’s Kitchen began directing traffic themselves as stoplights and walking signs went dark.</p>
<p>Ginger Tidwell, a dance teacher and Upper West Side resident, was about to order at the West Side diner on Broadway and West 69th Street just before 7pm.</p>
<p><em>“When the lights started flickering, and then were out,”</em> she said.</p>
<p><em>“We got up and left, walking up Broadway with all the traffic lights out and businesses dark.”</em></p>
<p>But once they got to West 72nd Street, they found another diner that was open and had power.</p>
<p><em>“It was still sunny and everyone just came out to the street because they lost power and air conditioning – it was super-crowded,”</em> she said.</p>
<p><em>“Everyone was hanging out on the street on a nice night. All you could hear was fire trucks up and down Broadway. All of Broadway was without traffic lights.”</em></p>
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