Channel 7 is celebrating 50 years Eyewitness News this month. Here’s a look back at how Eyewitness News covered the New York City blackout on Jul 13-14, 1977. More coverage: abc7ny.com/eye...
I was 11 during the blackout. Remember it like it was yesterday. The following day me and my dad went to our old neighborhood off of Andrews Avenue and it was like the zombies were let loose. It was really disgusting watching everybody burning stealing and destroying everything in sight.
I was ten at summer camp: my nearly-blind dad was driving home on the GW Bridge and found his way to our apartment, with my dog greeting him to lead him back home.
1977 was the worst year for New York City! The economic downfall from within the Big Apple! The Son of Sam killings! The terrible heat wave that summer! And especially the Blackout of '77! It's clear that the summer of '77 was the worst summer ever for New Yorkers!
Are you sure about that ? 11th of September is still summer. Summer is until 22nd September. I guess Americans consider September autumn because schools there start earlier, but in my country (Bulgaria) people still go on summer holidays in September. Fun fact : It's still autumn right now even though it's December 3rd. Winter starts in 21st December.
I REMEMBER I WAS THERE WHEN WAS 9 IN A HAFT YEARS OLD WITH MY FAMILY WATCHING BARNEY MILLIER IN THE OLD 19TH CENTURY APARTMENT ON WOODBINE STREET ACROSS THE STREET TO P.S. 377 IN THE BUSHWICK SECTION OF BROOKLYN AT THAT NIGHT OF JULY 13TH 1977.
Remember it well, was young, just got home fortunately for me, when lights went out about hour later, was in one of the neighborhoods that had looting, riots. Crazy.
This is a GREAT upload! Do Yourself a favor... Watch> "NY77 THE COOLEST YEAR IN HELL" for more on the blackout of 1977. This, coming from a New Yorker who lived through it.
No one today could understand what that summer was like: hot, Son of Sam, the Yankees, the financial crisis, crime....I was at camp in connecticut for this. Dad was on the GW Bridge and found his way home with our dog greeting him outside the building to lead him upstairs.
As they said, 90% of the power came back on prior to the time of broadcast, so anyone with a TV tuned in. Back then we didn’t have 24/7 news on TV, but we did have radio stations that used generator back ups to transmit, so everyone was listening to the radios. Transistor radios mind you too. Lol. When everyone got their power back, they flipped on the TV with all 7 TV Channels to chose from. Lol.
