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What happened when NYC's lights went out?

American Experience | PBS Short 3 months ago

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On the night of July 13, 1977, lightning struck several critical power lines just outside New York City, plunging all five boroughs into darkness.

It had been the first day of a sweltering nine-day heat wave, and with some eight million New Yorkers now in the dark, the economic and social frustrations that had steadily been building boiled over.

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