New York City Power Outage 1977

On the anniversary of a 1977 blackout that hit most of new york city a massive power outage brought the curtain down on broadway shows and stalled traffic on manhattan streets.

New york city power outage 1977. There was nothing to suggest anything deliberate according to a senior fire official and a senior. Forty years ago today on july 13 1977 a few minutes after 930 pm the lights in neighborhoods all over new york city flickered and then went out. The new york city blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of new york city on july 1314 1977. Saturday is the 42nd anniversary of the july 13 14 1977 new york city blackout which took out power to most of the city resulted in widespread civil disturbances and looting and helped usher in.

Frustration with a failing economy anxiety over the at large serial killer son of sam and a sweltering summer. On july 13 1977 a power outage in new york city pushed its residents to the brink. The earlier outage affected far more people 25 million spanning new york and seven other. The power outage was caused by a manhole fire according to tweets from the nypd and the mayor.

The mayhem of 1977 came as a night and day contrast with new yorks previous citywide blackout in 1965. The only neighborhoods in the city that were not affected were in southern queens including neighborhoods of the rockaways which were part of the long island lighting company system as well as the pratt institute campus in brooklyn as well as some other large apartment and commercial complexes that operated their own historic power generators. New york city wabc july 13 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the great new york energy crisis of 1977 when a 24 hour power outage made most of new york city go dark and caused a crime.