Lights go out at Statue of Liberty
For several hours, Lady Liberty did not shine as brightly.
New York City's famed Statue of Liberty was temporarily in the dark on Tuesday night after what a spokesman called an "unplanned outage".
WCBS-TV reported the statue was dark except for the crown and torch.
The lights returned shortly before midnight.
The outage sparked conversation on social media that perhaps it was done deliberately for Wednesday's "A Day Without Women" protest of inequality.
But National Park Service spokesman Jerry Willis said the outage was probably related to a project for a new emergency back-up generator.
He said the official cause would be determined on Wednesday when crews returned to work on the project, "part of our last remaining Hurricane Sandy recovery projects".
