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Friday, December 30, 2016

1977 NYC Blackout

By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed.

7/13/1977 during the NYC Blackout. KeeKee, Jan, and I are all down there somewhere. The fires were to the south of us, in Bushwick, Crown Heights, and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Manhattan, lights off, July 12, 1977 (we were there)

By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed.

The 24-hour blackout of NYC (from History in pictures twitter feed) 7/13/77. KeeKee, Jan, and I were there. It was the Summer of Sam and I was in Long Island College hospital in Brooklyn with a pneumothorax and double pneumonia. The only good part was that I had a view of lower Manhattan and watched as the lights blinked off around town.

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