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Post by porgyman on Jul 13, 2017 22:11:35 GMT -5
40 years ago tonight, NYC was plunged into darkness. As the song goes, where were you when the lights went out in New York City? I was a 13 year old kid living in Queens. I remember the next day when everyone was outside and all the neighbors had a huge BBQ on my street. Anyone do any looting?
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Post by Bing© in Buffalo Chairman on Jul 14, 2017 4:41:49 GMT -5
Bing was 11. Remember surprisingly little.
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Post by tkasper01 on Jul 14, 2017 5:21:25 GMT -5
40 years ago tonight, NYC was plunged into darkness. As the song goes, where were you when the lights went out in New York City? I was a 13 year old kid living in Queens. I remember the next day when everyone was outside and all the neighbors had a huge BBQ on my street. Anyone do any looting? I was 14, did no looting. It was my first brush with that mob mentality though. I remember reading in the papers people burning shit down and what not. Seeing people on the news with all sorts of stuff coming out through the store front windows. Summer of Sam as well. Even 40 years later it still make no sense.
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Post by Big L on Jul 14, 2017 5:29:27 GMT -5
I recall no such thing.
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Post by Jets Things on Jul 14, 2017 6:18:04 GMT -5
Lot of old in this thread. Two years before I was born.
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Post by 2foolish on Jul 14, 2017 7:28:59 GMT -5
I lived in Bay Ridge at the time... Prolly one of have few nice neighborhoods in NYC in the 70 s.. After the first night every shop on fifth ave had someone with a gun guarding thier stores...
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Post by JStokes on Jul 14, 2017 8:46:21 GMT -5
I had just graduated from HS, was waiting to head for college, living in Long Island.
I did no looting because I'm not....well never mind.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 8:51:47 GMT -5
I was in my 20s. Remember folks sitting outside drinking beer (legal age was 18), wine or soda for the kids. Everyone who had ice cream in the freezer brought it out to share. Kids walking around with lit "punks" to keep the mosquitos away.
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Post by BEAC0NJET on Jul 14, 2017 8:56:23 GMT -5
I was 4, living in Nassau County. Did not loot. I do remember my parents telling me stories about it later, the hassle of getting home from Manhattan and the like.
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Post by Jets Things on Jul 14, 2017 9:15:48 GMT -5
I had just graduated from HS, was waiting to head for college, living in Long Island. I did no looting because I'm not....we'll never mind. _ Jesus Christ
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Post by bxjetfan on Jul 14, 2017 9:33:43 GMT -5
I was at my grandfathers wake at a funeral parlor in the Bronx when the power went out. All the cousins were in the basement (maybe 30) and we were kidding around with th younger cousins telling them that behind a locked door was where all the bodies were and other nonsense. When the power went out we figured someone was screwing around and shut the lights off. After about 2 minutes all the kids started screaming and the parents came running down to see what was going on. Pure bedlam.
Driving through the Bronx the next day to go to the Mass and the funereal was surreal. Tons of stores had their gates peeled back so they could be looted, some stores were still smoking, and there was garbage everywhere.
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Post by DDNYjets on Jul 14, 2017 9:55:26 GMT -5
Wasnt even a swimmer in my dad's nuts yet but I have heard a bunch of stories. Hopefully nothing like that happens again. I think people today would be much more helpless.
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Post by JStokes on Jul 14, 2017 10:02:25 GMT -5
I had just graduated from HS, was waiting to head for college, living in Long Island. I did no looting because I'm not....we'll never mind. _ Jesus Christ Typo. Meant on. _
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Post by Jets Things on Jul 14, 2017 11:20:19 GMT -5
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Post by BEAC0NJET on Jul 14, 2017 11:23:43 GMT -5
Wasnt even a swimmer in my dad's nuts yet but I have heard a bunch of stories. Hopefully nothing like that happens again. I think people today would be much more helpless. Eh, we survived the blackout of 2003 pretty well. Somehow a whole lot of us got home from Manhattan that day. We're New Yorkers. We're resilient, and we hate each other most days, but times like that, we band together. I remember folks giving out water on the way back to Brooklyn. And there was little to no rioting and looting, unlike 1977.
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