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Outage knocks out power to 15,000 Brooklyn residents

Power restored at Brooklyn's Spring Creek Towers after major outage
Power restored at Brooklyn's Spring Creek Towers after major outage 00:19

NEW YORK -- A major outage knocked out power to 15,000 Brooklyn residents Tuesday.

Chopper 2 was over Spring Creek Towers, which used to be known as Starrett City.

Around 2 p.m., power went out in nearly all 46 of the towers.

The facility has its own power source.

The cause of the outage is unknown at this time.

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