According to reports, The New York Times has been forced to shift printing away from a plant on Long Island, where there is no power, to Edison, New Jersey, where a double run will be printed.
And The Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones, is unaffected by the power cuts, according to a report, with all 17 of its printing factories still running normally. Brigitte Trafford, spokeswoman for Dow Jones, said: "At this point, we fully expect that the paper will go to press on schedule and be printed in all plants nationwide."
New York City lost power on Thursday afternoon, right as the rush hour was getting under way, leaving thousands of commuters stranded as trains and the subway stopped running.
At 6pm, the Mets-San Francisco Giants baseball game was postponed, following the advice of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office and the New York Police Department.
The blackout is being blamed variously on a power surge in Canada and the US. It has affected states as far west as Michigan, and seen blackouts in cities including Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; and Toronto in Canada. Authorities in the US have ruled out a terrorist attack.
The mayor said that that the power was back on in parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx by 11pm, but not Manhattan where there will be no subway service for New Yorkers this morning.
"We're certainly not out of the woods yet," the mayor said. "It wouldn't be the worst thing to do to take a day off," he told The New York Times.
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