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One has been hurt. polo sandoval near times square, thank you very much. as polo mentioned, the power is slowly coming back on. we're hearing from new yorkers what it was like during those hours that the power was out. take a quick listen. >> i was on the sixth floor. we lost power very quickly. my understanding is that there's a wire underneath our building, 101 west end, that caused the transformer to explode, and that explosion caused a blackout. >> reporter: tell me about the glow stick. >> you like the glow stick? the safety of our building, high tech, they gave us glow sticks to go down ...

>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. you are live in the "cnn newsroom" i'm alex marquardt in washington, d.c. taking over for ana cabrera. it is breaking news right now on cnn. and great news for the people living in and visiting new york city on this summer weekend. a power outage that plunged much of manhattan into darkness a few hours ago is gradually, fingers crossed, coming to an end. the building lights are coming back on. the streetlights also coming back on. the power company, con edison, which runs the electric grids, are hopeful that most of their new york city customers will ...

You are safe and as you said, everything seemed to have gone quite smoothly. and that seems to be the good news item out of all of this, that no one has been injured, that there was no chaos, that both drivers and people on the street managed this quite calmly and went about their business waiting for the power to come back on. con edison, the power company of new york, now saying that the number of people who are still without power is 16,000. that is down from a far higher number. so slowly, gradually, the power coming back on in new york. we're going to take a quick break. we'll have more n...

It's just an inconvenience for most people but in the back of your mind you always worry about something more nefarious. so far all the evidence is to the contrary. con ed is getting to the bottom of it. the most interesting sight, as a resident tonight, alex, looking down from up in a high-rise building, hoping not to have to use the stairs or anything, looking at all the people walking by on their cellphones as it was getting dark, they were like little fireflies because now a blackout in a cellphone age, a social media age, means people did at least have flashlights for a little while. powe...

People were asking us what was going on on, what was causing the chaos. we did definitely see a number of emergency vehicles, alex, that seemed to be moving into position across the west side of manhattan, fire trucks and police cars certainly being deployed on the city and state level, fanning out to help where needed and if needed. they were trying to make their way through the traffic. i can tell you, it wasn't a lot of chaos, just a heavy amount of traffic. we saw more and more lights come on farther north, relief for people wondering if they would have to make it through the night without...