They sent me an email stating that they are performing critical maintenance on core routers at both locations.
my droplet in New York 1 has been up and reachable since i booted it up 2 months ago.
Mine has had 100% uptime during this outage. The issues are probably spotty.
My droplet has been working fine in NY. There was an email earlier today about a problem detected and expected, intermittent downtime for tonight. Not sure if that is related.