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Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Jul 13 22:16:57 2026 Remarkable chain of events allow a notorious night 7/13/77 |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Jul 13 22:49:00 2026, in response to Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Jul 13 22:16:57 2026. Good post. The blackout lasted several days.One night, Broadway in Brooklyn which borders Bedford-Stuyvesant was completely looted. This was covered extensively by the media. Knickerbocker Ave business owners got together the next afternoon and formed a group figuring the looters would target them next. They were right. Looters came and business owners fired warning shots and they retreated. But out of spite they were able to burn one or two buildings down just east of Myrtle. This allowed the land owners to sell to Burger King and NYC who put a police precinct there. |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Tue Jul 14 01:13:25 2026, in response to Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Jul 13 22:16:57 2026. 2 years before I got hired by transit. I was with Chemical Bank at the time @ E.14th St./Ave. B. I hated that job and was waiting.....but transit had recently cut lots of service and had a hiring freeze. They didn't need people anyway. Motorman became temporary bus operators for example.The bank was closed for the day eventhough the LES got power back by 10 AM as I remember but the vaults couldn't be opened because the timers stopped when the blackout occurred. But we had a miserable day after the day off with all the night deposit bags by customers who were so panicked that after the lights went out, they kept almost no cash on hand and deposited it all. That blackout, along with all the lootings, fires, etc. bought this city down to the lowest point probably since the Great Depression. |
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Re: Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 14 02:01:37 2026, in response to Re: Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Tue Jul 14 01:13:25 2026. Chemical Bank at the time @ E.14th St./Ave. B. I hated that jobPerhaps you're not very narcissistic. Anyway, I'll bet you loved the commute to and from work on the arnines. That blackout, along with all the lootings, fires, etc. bought this city down to the lowest point probably since the Great Depression. And don't forget, the .44 cailber killer aka the Son of Sam, was still on the loose. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jul 14 06:55:01 2026, in response to Re: Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Jul 13 22:49:00 2026. Hunts Pt. Ave in the Bronx also was turned into a war zone. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jul 14 08:14:52 2026, in response to Re: Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Jul 13 22:49:00 2026. It lasted 25 hours. By about 10:30 on July 14 everyone had lights again.Bushwick grabbed some dubious national attention for the behavior of some citizens that decided it was Christmas. And to think it was lightning strikes that set off a wild chain of events. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jul 14 08:15:36 2026, in response to Re: Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Tue Jul 14 01:13:25 2026. Great story and information. Thank you for sharing. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jul 14 08:16:39 2026, in response to Re: Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 14 02:01:37 2026. He probably did until 3/31/77. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jul 14 08:17:29 2026, in response to Re: Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jul 14 06:55:01 2026. One of several around town. Such a disgrace |
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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jul 14 10:37:18 2026, in response to Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Jul 13 22:16:57 2026. Oh yeah….I remember watching that whole thing go down from my apartment in New Paltz. On TV, with the candlelight on the reporters desk. (A throwback to the infamous 1965 blackout coverage no one in NYC got to see) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 14 11:31:35 2026, in response to Re: Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jul 14 08:16:39 2026. Oh. Is that the date? I used to love seeing the R-9's on the LL.By 1976 I don't remember seeing them on the M or J. Only the LL and KK. |
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