WPIX Special Report: Blackout '77-City of Darkness
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Published 2017-03-09
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All Comments (21)
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The store owner interviewed for a while from the 13 minute mark, is incredible articulate. He should have been a writer, not a store keeper, he has a real way with words
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The more of these old news videos i watch, the more it appears to me that people were a lot more mature and had a better sense of self awareness back then.
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I lived thru this in Brooklyn...I remember it quite well.
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Wow I was there Age 16....luckily comfortably numb in my Dads east side apartment That was a crazy ass summer
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WPIX had a lot of class by including excerpts of rivals' TV coverage of the 1977 blackout. Likely, videotape shot by WPIX was probably loaned to other stations in return.
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I just turned 5 years old, approaching in my final year of preschool. And I was watching Bareta at that time. My brother was 4 years old.
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People would go in full blown panic if there were a blackout today. Can you imagine the amount of time most people would last with no cell phone, iPad or internet of any kind?
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I had just graduated High School when this happened. David Berkowitz known at that time was ‘The 44 Caliber Killer’ before he was caught. Yep, we sat outside of our house because it was a hot day. We didn’t go back inside until AFTER dark. Oh, such memories.
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I remember running up and down the darkened hallway of the Grant Projects where my family lived in Harlem. Good Times.
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I was ten years old when the blackout happened.
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July 13, 2019. Happy Anniversary. Partial blackout in NYC. 1977 was a different time in NY. There was still actual native New Yorkers left in the city, as you can hear by the city accents.
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I just turned 8 on that day when the blackout started. It was on my 8th birthday July the 13th 1977. My mother had a celebration for me.
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It is interesting to see these reports about the 1977 blackout, & comparing them to reports about the 1965 & 2003 major blackouts.
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I was almost 8 years old living in Greenwich CT I remember that night so well. We were at a club eating dinner and I remember watching this table umbrella outside blowing wildly in this massive thunderstorm! We did not lose power in CT but I had bigger problems... I was terrified that Son of Sam was going to come up and murder me! Ahhhhhhhh the summer of 1977 Good times!
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13:52 This man was so eloquent and inciteful. Comparing to looters and arsonists to Nazi Stormtroopers in 1932. I see no difference. Both criminals victimizing the innocent.
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Before the viral pandemic & the 9/11 terrorist attack, this was one of NYC's biggest disasters.
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Ed Koch, mayor of NYC 1978-89
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45:10 Wow....amazing foreshadowing!!
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Cool! Thanks News Active for posting this. No doubt one of the low point eras of the 20th Century in NYC. Interesting watching this news special for first time here on the WPIX news, the night after the now infamous '77 blackout. Actually first full unedited look at any local NYC newscast the night after that histroic night. I was living in Brooklyn at that time and was 4 years old thus too young to remember. If you want guys a more detailed background of this time period, search for A VH1 documentary special made around 2005-'06 (i think it's still on youtube somewhere) called NYC 77: A Cool year in Hell. Great details from that period also at the height of the disco/punk rock era as well. PS off topic. The fonts/graphics of the WPIX newscasts of that era are now used even on a high school video broadcast. How has technology changed lol.
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