A Look Back: Major blackout hits New York City on July 13, 1977
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- On July 13, 1977, 45 years ago Wednesday, a major blackout hit New York City. For 25 hours, the darkness led to total chaos, with widespread looting and fires in the streets. We're taking a look back at this moment in New York City history. CBS2's Jim Jenson and John Tesh lead our coverage of the 1977 blackout.
Why is old news footage and concert footage so addictive? I mean that seriously. There is something very therapeutic about this, an escape quality that is very difficult to pin point.
Because it happened in real time some pain remains but yah realize how silly alot of this stuff really was.
I think it’s because of the unbiased reporting. I didn’t see any left or right news reporting but just reporters out and upfront getting the stories. Going right up to the looters and talking to them. Very addictive.
@@jafll141 Nailed it. Precisely that. We were given the news without any personal angle. If there were any specific views, there was a segment dedicated to just that (usually called EDITORIAL), separate from the reporting. It's a refreshing watch (re watch in may case since I grew up on this stuff).
We were able to develop our own views once we had a chance to at least digest what we watched. I miss it so.
For me, it's because it's like time travel....kind of.
I agree. Old news footage used to be informative and not driven by agendas. Now we are in the fake news era.
I was at the movies in NYC watching Star Wars as a 16 year old when the movie house went dark, We got out on the street at 54th street and walked down 7th ave with the intent of walking home to Brooklyn. The looting along 7th Ave was scary. We got to the Waldorf Astoria at 34th street and decided to sleep in the lobby since it was late and scary outside. We got up as the sun came up and started on our trek back to Brooklyn when a friend came with a car and saw us and picked us up and we got home to Brooklyn. I'm 62 and will never forget that night.
I'm a Pole and have never been to the US, actually I wasn't born until 1979, but I'm fascinated with the American history. Tell me please, do you prefer the old NYC with buildings and subway trains covered in graffiti, pimps and prostitutes around the Times Square area, with more crime etc., but with people being friendlier and more natural or the modern one, wealthy, clean & tidy?
Thank you for sharing your first-hand experience! Oral histories (well, typed) are so important.
I was 7 years old during that blackout, living in Tribeca...I remember the entire block cheered loudly when the Con Edison trucks came on the block to turn the lights back on
Watching Will get back to you
Did you ever get to see the rest of the movie?
I'll never forget it. As soon as the lights went out I got so scared I went into labor and 13 hours later due to difficulties I had an emergency cesarean. Today July 14 my beautiful first born is 45 years old.
02:35 it sounds like the Purge
@@omalone1169 it was bad. Looting etc. I'll never forget it.
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damn, the lights going out scares you that much? lol it's only darkness sugar😂
FYI it was pitch black outside, couldn't see my hand in front of my face.
Wow, this brings back memories. I was a teenager in '77. My family spent most of the blackout looking out our windows at everything that was going on.
I was two months old in Tennessee when this happened but I remember this being recollected by my mother and other elders when I was growing up. This obviously made a significant impact on a national level, and I can ultimately understand why. This must have been a terrible couple of days and nights for the affected residents!
Thank you for this great upload. Although it was a very bad night for NYC, it pretty awesome to see this vintage newscast with so many of the familiar names that I watched on CBS2 as a youth, Jim Jensen, Vic Miles, Chris Borgen, Marilyn Salenger, JJ Gonzalez, Arnold Diaz and others.
Don't forget John Stossel and Joe Witte now . . . plus Jim's substitute co-anchor for this night, John Tesh.
@@wmbrown6 1:50 what happened 12 years ago?
Arnold Diaz just retired after 50 years on the tube
@@ericsamuelson5656And he died just recently.
@@omalone1169Another blackour was what happened!
My mom was born in 1977 and I was born in 2003 it's crazy how there was a black out both years where me and my mom was born
Okay?
Damn two different blackout incidents at the same city. But glad you’re both alright. I know it’s the past but damn that was scary
@@RealSergiob466 Well the 2003 blackout no one was doing any rioting in the streets like what see in these footages of the 1977 blackout.
@@ndr523Okay what? She made an interesting fact about her and her mom being born on the years NYC had major a blackout 26 years apart.
@@jpla1886I agree. Some, like the person you wrote to, have nothing better, than to troll. I found the original poster's comment interesting.
My mother used to tell me stories on how she lived through blackout. Many rolling blackouts and chaos in the streets. Then the August 2003 blackout, I was walking home, I got off the bus and I experienced seeing traffic being a stand still. People were listening to their transistor radios to 1010 WINS, WCBS News Radio 880, and other radio stations to know what was going on. It was a blackout and I got home, at the time when my mom was alive, I was worried if she would get home. I found out she walked home. Then I was happy she got home. It was one of the most unpredictable experiences that I ever seen.
I was in Litchfield CT in 1977 and in Philadelphia in 2003, where some PECO guy didn't like what he saw and pulled us off the grid, making us the only major city east of Detroit with power.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501damn how old are you?
True but 2003 was nothing like this
2003 was so tame compared to 1977. New Yorkers were way more patient as a whole and it made me proud to be a New Yorker. Today everything is more politically driven and it's sad
@@ATCguy1973 including handling a crisis.
Con Ed has never had a stellar reputation even now.
You said it! They still are a crappy company.
@@NewYorkDoll_911 what brings you here ?
Brings back memories. The first time my grandfather ever hit me, when I told him him I wanted to go to Broadway to get some "free" stuff. Broadway has yet to recover to be the shopping mecca it once was.
Broadway is VERY different. Gentrified. Million-dollar properties there in former brownfields; ghetto still extant.
Grandpa was so right.
@@dkeithtag Pretty sure at least some of that arson wasn't 'random acts of violence', it was motivated and initiated by long term 'urban renewal' interests...why certain people allowed NYC to descend into bankruptcy and chaos in the 1970s, and let the buildings go abandoned...So they could snatch them up cheap (some NYC abandoned buildings back then were literally selling for $1, if you were willing to pay to get them up to code)....and torch them if necessary (usually for the insurance money so they can 'rebuild' something newer and more expensive)...leading to the mad NYC rent hikes and real estate valuations in the 1980s
Oh yes, memories! But yoou notice not one EV car was stolen in the whole city. Why?😮
Your grandpa probably saved your life. It was wild out there!
With all the looting, that’s where the expression, “Christmas in July” came from 😂
I have yet to hear this and also what happened with the troops ?
No thar
T expression was around before 1977
@@valjohnson1927 I was joking. It started in 1933. Had nothing to do with looting though.
@@samanthab1923 But that riots obviously changed the connotation! 😆😆😆
Thank you for posting this!!! All vintage news casrs are precious pieces of history and this was epic!!!!
Remember this as a kid. July 13, 1977 at 9:36PM
Remember this very well... I was 5 years old about to turn 6 on the 24th of July 1977 and I was living in Newark NJ and I could see the new york city skyline from my window.... Memories 🌠
My grandmother lived on Manor Ave and I was hanging out at BX River Houses and my grandmother called for me out the window and we just was in her apartment until it was over. Will never forget at the age now of 57.
1977 was a crazy year in New York City. A contentious mayoral race, a massive blackout follwed by massive amounts of looting and chaos, FALN leaving bombs all over the city, a serial killer terrorizing the city, record high homicides, the Yankees won the World Series, Studio 54, disco, cocaine, hedonism....it was crazy.
Was listening to the game at Shea Stadium on a vintage Panasonic AM radio in the kitchen in our apartment in Astoria. Still remember them describing the lights going out over the scoreboard throughout Flushing. The lights went out in blocks and sections. Great memories and wonderful video. Thanks for posting.
Who were the Mets playing ?⚾️
I loved the 70's, but the City was a shithole. Broke, crime, Maypr Beame, Son of Sam, etc. It had alot of character, to say the least. AND as tawdry as it was, Time Square was erotically dangerous and fun...no Disney back then. Honestly, I miss the excitement of the porn shops and theatres.....
That's when New York city was the best in the 70s. All the movie theaters were all next to each other on the same block. All the Porno shops Hookers all over the place. Manhattan was so much fun back than the seedy side of it.
@@kevinclark8549 You nailed it, Kevin. Rather have that then the crime, homeless everywhere, Disney tourists, shelters of today. Yeah, the porn theatres were great, I went, the excitement was great. Enjoy your evening, Kevin.
@@jeffbengert2863 you to Jeff thanks.
@@jeffbengert2863 there is a great Documentary around that Era. It's called the Torso killer. Richard Cottingham he was a serial killer. He was killing girls in the Time's Square and NJ areas. It's on Netflix. It's in 4 part's excellent documentary checkout when you get a chance.
@@kevinclark8549 Thank you, Kevin. Yes, I am familiar with him. He's probably somewhere on these crazy social media platforms in alias.....Jeff not a fan of social media. I believe he is still alive, in Jersey, prison, and if I remember what I read, one of his victim's daughters is trying to "bond" with him in some way or forgive him or something odd..... I think he picked up prostitutes and murdered a couple in Times Square back then in a seedy hotel there back then. Hey, I made it to 59, and have found recollections of those 70s growing up in Jersey and the "danger" that lurked in the City back then. I'd rather have that then this WOKE progressive bs and Disney characters etal .....Be well Kevin, and try not to get shot these days...
Thank you to everyone in the comments who have shared their memories. This was before I was born. Contemporary reporting like this video are fascinating, but first hand recollections are so vital.
The stark difference of the reaction of the 1977 and 2003 New York City electricity blackout.
And the '65 blackout too.
We were a civilized nation in 03 ..now were like 77 again..
Danm democrats
More white people in 1965 and 911 humbled new Yorkers so they were more reflective in 2003.
@@nickcancelliere5638agree,…..the Dems turn EVERYTHING to shyt.
@@michaelquinones-lx6ksMy thoughts exactly lol.
I remember it well I was living in Brooklyn at the time on Flatbush avenue I was 17 I am 60 years old now and I still live in Brooklyn.
I was at Jones Beach, but lived in Brooklyn NYC, with my mother and Aunt Harriet. We had no clue, what was going on until we got in the car to go home and the traffic lights were not working properly. I had just graduated High School. And the photos from my Graduation was at the Pharmacy to be developed. Needless to say during that night the Pharmacy was part of the looting that happened, so no photos got developed. I will never forget it.
Prayers for Harriet. Rest in peace.❤
🧢 Jones Beach is NOT in Brooklyn‼️😆😆😂😂😂 Good try though‼️💯🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭
@@bkallday2998maybe he meant coney Island 😂
I remember this night I almost got killed when a nyc sanitation truck emergency brake didn't work. My dumb as was supposed to be home in the house. Crazy Eddie got hit hard. Dude owned a truck had brand new furniture for 3 family members.
Daaaaaaang! You said Crazy Eddie!!! I remember those commercials!
RIP CRAZY EDDIE! YOU WERE THE DUMBEST SALESMAN IN TOWN
I read a few years ago that the Crazy Eddie's in the Bronx had already shut down within an hour or less of the blackout, and the managers could see the gangs
of looters running down the street to try to get to them, and they had to literally take out handguns or shotguns in case they tried to get in the store. That's just
what I read, anyway. Not sure which store this was, Grand Concourse, Gun Hill Road? I dunno. I worked for Crazy Eddie's in LI for three years in the late 80s,
but we never had any issues like that! P.S. I read that store was opened in 1976 or 77 on East Fordham Road, prob. off Grand Concourse or so.
Nice to see Con Edison is consistent
Yes still no accountability.
Yes, it's THAT John Tesh.
Dude is a legend!
Ageless, lol
I remember how much looting destroyed Bushwick, especially along Broadway, it took 25 years before all thise stories were restored again
Bushwick was a mess. had friends there.I was in the Bronx during the blackout and it was mind boggling what i witnessed traveling...
I live on the Brooklyn Queens border only about 15 blocks away from Bushwick.. I would venture into that place once in awhile back in the 80's when I do was a teenager.. They had some cool stores on Knickerbocker ave that sold weapons like knives and Chinese stars.. But I do remember how destroyed Bushwick was.. A scary place for sure, much of it was burnt and you would just see drug addicts sleeping in the streets.. It was a place of despair..
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
19:12 Even Reverend Al Sharpton was in on it‼️😂😂😂😂
Just kidding that’s not him💯🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember it well, very hot and humid, thank God i lived in Jackson Heights Queens far from the turbulence in Manhattan .
Yes, I remember it as if it were yesterday.
Me too.
Same!!! The summer of '77 chased us to the suburbs the very next year lol.
Nice use of the subjunctive!👍
I remember being stuck in a Burger King during the 77 black out at 12 years old lots of looting in the South Bronx I didn’t see much on Fordham Road though
Warriors !!! Come out and play
My Dad was on the GW Bridge in his car, made it home via floodlights, my dog smelled him from our apartment and ran downstairs to find hime and bring him home. Meanwhile, I was at camp in Litchfield CT and slept through it as lights out was 9pm.
Did you smell him too?
I smelled him also.PU!
It happened again in 2003 blackout
That was under different circumstances but yes
47 years ago tonight...
Almost 50 years still the same going on now how can they blame con ed in 2003 nobody looted so blame the people not the company I was 3 in 1977 my father was a NYPD police officer he was allowed to go home at night and guard his own home we were living on the boarder of bed sty at that time and many times during that night he had to point his gun out the windows to prevent people from breaking in etc he took us kids up to the top floor with him so he could stand watch he told me the whole city was burning down but now I can finally see what he ment thank u for this
God bless your dad for his service & bravery to be a police officer in that city, especially during those times
Places that are looted are poor with overcrowding and minimal services. Any race perpetually under such conditions would lash out in the same irrational way.
If it wasn't for that blackout, there wouldn't be a whole lot of hip-hop groups coming out. Most kids couldn't afford DJ equipment. I consider the 77 Blackout was part of the evolution of Hip-Hop Groups!
Facts
The 1977 NYC Blackout and Riots was like "The Cambrian Explosion" (to borrow a geological timeline term) for Hip Hop! 🤣🤣🤣
Never understood the need to loot & burn. Wonder how those gentlemen turned out that were interviewed by the reporter regarding looting & burning their own community. My admiration to the brave officers & firefighters confronting such wide scale social disorder. My heart goes out to law abiding citizens & business owners who were affected by the crimes committed by the hoards of criminals. Was that Rev Al arrested at 19:13?
Those whose businesses were looted and burned were not OF the community. They were from the outside ans were exploited those in the community. The looters often saw it as playback. Of course it was not always the case that the business owners were from outside the community or exploiting the community. Unfortunately those who did were seen as justification to loot.
It's a mentality borne of poverty and over crowding that's not present in more affluent areas.
When your from a race that was enslaved and spitted on for 400 years in a country claiming to be inalienabel rights you take what you can yo even the score. Most of the looters never had a nice thing they were ever given once in their hole life?
I was 14.
At the time and I remember this blackout real. Well, it was crazy.
July 13, 2022 23:31, 45 years ago. Cannot believe it.
Me to! I was 17.
bro was born in 1960
so weird seeing John Tesh as an anchorman. His career exploded upward so far not long after this.
I mean all he really known for is hosting Entertainment Tonight
5 years before I was born. My parents in New Jersey met 4 months earlier when this aired. Later that night, Jim Jensen anchored with Dave Marash (the guy with the beard) at 11:00. I noticed the 6:00 newscast was in the newsroom and the studio where they had individual desks with overhead lights was at 11:00. I assume it was Sept 1977 when they took the 6:00 report to the studio full time.
I was there! I survived the "Summer of Sam"!
Damn it’s crazy to look at how people were living through this type of stuff, and it’s crazy my grandparents raised my mom and her siblings during the 60s-90s
Loved your statement...I am one of those "people" who lived through this type of stuff, and thankfully have every single marble still left in my head!
@@phyllissnookI was born in 2006, I’m a history nerd so I love hearing stories like this
I remember this night. I was about 8 yrs old, living in the filthy BRONX…. It was about 105 degrees with no AC, that night my mom let us all hang out at the park till about 1 am. Ppl were setting dumpsters on fire and shooting fireworks DIRECTLY at passing police cars and fire trucks. My mom told us ARMAGEDDON had started and the end of the world was here. I really thought Jesus was coming back THAT NIGHT, and I was AFRAID TO FALL ASLEEP. We spent the entire night praying by candlelight and reading the Bible. 😂
LOL
105 degrees? That's a Las Vegas temperature, not in New York.
@@joedimaggio3687 Prolly he included the humidity as well...
That was only the beginning for me if you remember the Blizzard of 1978 I was walking in the middle of that blizzard for a 6 Hour post. I got to write a book. well guys enjoy History
RIP Chris Borgen one of the great reporters of all time. No BS just the story . Jim Jensen too.
Don’t forget Jimmy Breslin….
My Grandfather died of a heart attack likely brought in by the stress of the heat in those little Bronx apartments. My mom and dad who lived in suburban Long Island were therefore forced to drive from the relative safety of a suburban neighborhood into the teeth of mayhem in the Bronx in the complete dark with all the looting going on and had to go the the darkened funeral home. Can you imagine? Geez.
The same chaos would happen now
YOUD HAVE MILLIONS OF GUNS BLARING IN THE AIR NOW
Nowadays they'd scream out BLM.
@@ekop1778what guns the government want to get rid of them but not the police guns some police officers are good people but they are more killer cops than good ones
Another 43 years would pass before NYC had another major riot!
Lived through this too. Not fun
That night I was at a Richie Havens concert in Central Park; at one point the music hit a heavy beat and at exactly the same moment there was a loud a thunderclap... *and I somehow knew something incredibly weird was going to happen any minute* - then on the way out of the park after the concert...all the lights went out. Nothing similar ever happened to me before or since.
Love old news coverage
If we loose energy now, it will be far worse since mandate caused termination of cops, reserves, firefighters and service people 😵💫
Relax a ton of police cadets just graduated two weeks ago 🥴
Thats right, all those that demanded police defunded will be screaming “ OLICE HELP “
After seeing how the rethugs beat them in DC when the Jan 6ers stormed the capital... I guess a lot of would be cops chose different professions
This blackout is the reason Hip Hop grew. People couldn't afford expensive music equipment so when that blackout happened and people started looting they finally had access to what they needed. As crazy as this may sound it's a true story.
ANIMALS THEN....ANIMALS NOW
Yep, the mayo ones... like the Son of Sam for example
hey your lazy greedy ancestor's brought us animals over here to build there stolen land I CALL IT KARMA LOL
And always will be it’s in their genes
He turned ny into a dump
don't know about the mayo but the hood was a mess..looting and robbing.. really pathetic..
Was coming back from Great Adventure, hit the GW and the rest is history
I was stationed in Jersey ,visiting Family in Brooklyn walking down Atlantic Ave on East all of a sudden the lights flickered and then right out. Pitch black I was with my 3 cousins I told just sit back out in the shadows and witnessed that craziness that erupted. We worked our way back to their home walking . Then I headed back to base.
Wow. Sounds like the premise of “The Warriors” but with your cousins in toe. Crazy!
When civilization breaks down, certain peoples will quickly revert back to their respective heritable means..... 😐
I have wonderful memories of watching the news at 6pm with Jim Jensen and Roland Smith every night at dinnertime with my parents; now all of them are gone...😢😢😢
I think they cut out the part where John Tesh wished Elizabeth Taylor a happy birthday
Wow blast from the past. I grew up in North Jersey with a perfect view of The Empire State Building from my bedroom window. I was looking out the window without a care in the world when everything beyond the Hudson went dark. Of course as a kid this all seemed exciting.
47 Years On July 13!
I would not eat anything from stores for at least a week
I was there. It was insane!
I was going into The City to see a band & we got stuck on the D train(when it was still the Brighton Line)just outside of Atlantic Ave. We could hear all the horns honking on the street. They were able to roll one half of one door to platform & we filed through the train…
I'm surprised that John Tesh didn't just break out in playing some of his famous instrumental music.
I'm surprised that there was a city left. BTW, I knew of some shopkeepers there who lost their businesses as a result of the chaos.
Insurab9is important. I wonder if their claims were denied because of the "insurrection " clause
@@valjohnson1927 The claims were denied because of that.
GOOD TIMES! THEN! SUMMER OF SAM AND FIRES TOO
BURNING HOT NO AC
ITS WAS HELL
Us kids spent the entire summer on the lookout for Son of Sam and the yellow Volkswagen 🧐
I was sitting on the porch when it happened
I was at a Boz Scaggs show at Avery Fisher Hall when the lights went out. The entire Upper West Side commenced to party. Restaurants bought tables on the sidewalk and kept serving. It was tough getting back to NJ; but a night to remember for sure!
New york had a history of blackouts 1965 then 1977 in the 90s
I was wondering why Jerry Koosman was suddenly striking out so many batters:The lights were slowly dimming.
It was a beautiful night in my neighborhood which was Bensonhurst Brooklyn. My friends & I played Ring-o-lario in the streets. Everyone was hanging out on the stoops. No problems whatsoever! We never locked the doors including that night. I wonder why?
Hmm. That's because Bensonhurst is a good neighborhood where the people care about their community. Yeah I grew up in Canarsie and while I was only 2 during the blackout I remember asking family about it and they said nothing like what happened in the bronx and other places happened in our neighborhood
I was 2 years old living in Brooklyn with my parents....I came here because I just wanted to know what happened that night....I don't remember....🤷♀️
i was hanging in my friends apt in her kitchen listening to the nyc black out we all were in
oh wow!
Preppers, remember, this could easily happen again on an even wider scale. Remember the risk we face from things like another Carrington Event occurring.
4:24 is this Con Edison who Kool G Rap mentioned ?
@@omalone1169 Not that I know of. Have you heard of the Carrington Event, before?
Oh yeah, if you think this event is bad, just you wait until this does happen again but the entire country blacks out, not just for one day, but for an entire week. Now that would be something to watch and see what happens next, now that people's smartphone batteries may not even last long enough to withstand a week without power. But my dad's prepped for anything nowadays compared to Hurricane Sandy and the 2003 Blackout 10 to 20 years ago.
@@SuperFlashDrivergood thi g I have a solar charge power bank
John Tesh of ET(Entertainment Tonight)fame as a news anchor. Wow !
I was at 93rd and West End Avenue that day! I’ll never forget it. Total bedlam and confusion.. thank God Rudy Giuliani got us through it! But I guess the Dems and liberals never appreciated what he did.
I knew about the 1977 blackout from The History Channel and from my Dad but I could share from my own experience from the 2003 blackout and I was scared to death because I thought that there'd be riots in the streets because of what I saw or what my Dad told me about the 1977 blackouts but thank goodness nothing like that happened in the 2003 blackouts.
Im not sure but the 2003 blackout was alot less dangerous. I worked in Toronto and lived in Hamilton Ont. It was a 2 hour drive. We had about $20 and we needed gas to get out of the GTA to go up north to make sure my ex's grandmother was alone.
I remember it was extremely hot, no relief from the heat, probably the same in NYC
En ese año el 1977 aprox., MDNA estaba pasando por momentos tristes😢
The next couple of days hip hop scene explode with some many Dj crews bc they looted store that had Dj equipment
🤣🤣
The Cambrian Explosion of Hip Hop!
i remember that night for about a minute the sky went from pitch black to daylight and back to a black sky it made people think a nuke went off... theres more conspiracy mystery to this
What about the one in 2003?? Is there footage of that?
Shameful that this was an American city in 1977
Looks like it's in Africa.
Happens on a daily basis in Venezuela. 😅
22:55 The Chicago Cubs were beating the NY Mets 2-1 when that dreaded blackout happened.
Funny that. 😅
Some say the stereo stores were definitely being looted and that’s when a whole bunch of DJ’s were born.
I was living in London when this happened but I had experienced the one on November 9, 1965 and again on August 14, 2003. I’m glad I missed the 1977 one. It makes me angry when looters and vandals take advantage of situations like this.
They basically turned the blackout to a precursor of "The Purge"...
Time and space are one.
This reality is in a different location because it is in a different time.
I like to remember more "uplifting" things like when the guy climbed the World Trade Center a few weeks before.
Omg John Tesh RIP Brotha you had a magnificent career I was nine years old when the lights went out 1977 like 9/11/01 & the year 2020 I will never forget
I hope we don’t see nothing like that again but with crime is up is posible it could happen
Um, John Tesh is still alive and well; you're probably thinking of Jim Jensen (who died in 1999).
Recuerdo ese dia como si fuera hoy
Was it fun and did you get any loot when out and about Tomas Louis ??
@@powerplay4real174 i hooked up with 3 prostitues and didnt pay it was wild
I waa literally 6 months old exactly 😊
Playing coco leveo when the lights went out on Jefferson Ave.... then heard the words, let's hit Broadway. And hit it they did.
And think! Bill DiBlasio has brought back all of this charming old NY.
The 2003 blackout was more iconic and much more civilized tbh.
How "iconic"?
Not sure if it is iconic, but it definitely was far more civilized! 🤣🤣🤣
The 'gross negligence' was from city hall and the midget mayor.
45:24 Jimmy Carter's America.
45 years later, ConEd is STILL causing blackouts!
I wonder what it was like in Rikers Island and the MHD.