NY mayor criticized for being on campaign trail during blackout 0 SHARES Share it! The hours-long blackout on Saturday night, which plunged Times Square into darkness and brought subways to a halt, affected more than 70,000 customers on Manhattan’s West Side. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat like De Blasio, pulled no punches when he himself appeared on CNN. “Mayors are important and situations like this come up and you have to be on site,” Cuomo said late Saturday. Cuomo arrived in the city as the blackout was still ongoing and was giving a press conference as the lights started to come back on.

Source: Manila Bulletin July 14, 2019 22:41 UTC