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.

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.

speaking with support now. they say they have a major issues going on that effects most droplets

Mine has had 100% uptime during this outage. The issues are probably spotty.