New York Power Outage 1977
There was nothing to suggest anything deliberate according to a senior fire official and a senior.
New york power outage 1977. The power outage was caused by a manhole fire according to tweets from the nypd and the mayor. 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. In one of those bizarre coincidences thats almost too strange to be true the blackout that affected a large swath of midtown manhattan on saturday happened on the 42nd anniversary of the massive. 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.