New York City lost power, and searched for its mayor

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, campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, when the lights went out on Manhattan's West Side, dimming Broadway and Times Square, after a reported malfunction at an electrical substation set off a chain of disturbances in the grid.In the mayor's absence, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the one, front and center, explaining what went wrong.

Gov. Cuomo: We saw New Yorkers at their best tonight 02:36By early Sunday, power had been restored. But outages like this -- which utility company Con Edison said affected 72,000 people at one point -- are major political events in New York and its leader, already unpopular in large parts of the city, had a different kind of crisis on his hands.

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