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Power outages trip up JCPenney and Lord & Taylor

Hurricane Sandy wasn’t kind to New York retailers — and some of the city’s largest are still reeling from the blowhard.

JCPenney and Lord & Taylor, whose flagships lost power Monday as the storm churned through the Big Apple, remained shuttered yesterday.

Penney’s store at the Manhattan Mall on 33rd Street “had the option to re-open” yesterday after power was restored, but is expected to reopen today, according to a Manhattan Mall official.

Penney, which closed more than 100 of its 1,100 stores because of the storm, said a large majority of them have been reopened.

Meanwhile, Lord & Taylor’s Fifth Avenue flagship remained dark yesterday as its 39th Street block remained without power amid others in the key retail location of Midtown.

“They’re telling us it will be restored tomorrow, but they’ve been saying that,” a Lord & Taylor official said of Con Ed.

Ten Lord & Taylor locations, mainly in New Jersey and Long Island, remained without power yesterday, officials said.

Macy’s, which on Wednesday reopened both its Herald Square store and its Bloomingdale’s flagship after a two-day outage, still had about 15 stores without power yesterday after closing around 200 — nearly a quarter of its chain.

Saks, which saw more than two dozen stores lose power this week, also reopened its Fifth Avenue flagship on Wednesday, as did Bergdorf Goodman.

Barneys’ Madison Avenue store was the first of the big stores to reopen — employees served lattes to brave customers on Tuesday.

The closures could dampen November monthly sales results.