20 years later: Revisiting the blackout of 2003 

i did too! i was bartending on 2nd ave and like 52nd. we got packed then everyone walked over 59th street home to queens together/drunk. lol.

UH THE TECHNOLOGY IS BETTER? YEA RIGHT- ITS KRAP NOW CON MEN ARE STILL A JOKE NOW

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You must had hell of a time in this blackout lol…

that sucks....my mother and sister had to walk from Manhattan to Canarsie, i felt so bad for them 🤣....I was at home playing in the streets with my friends (I turned 10 that summer)

I guess you made it home on time before the chaos

Scary at the time I'm sure, but what an experience to be able to tell your kids about!!

Time to experience it again due to climate change@@tannerpr

My husband and I tell the kids about it all the time. The blackout of 03 and 9/11. Scary times as NYer. Especially when the fighter jets came out and patrolled the city!

I remember this blackout was everywhere in the news on tv so I did seen people living nyc was sweating as hell. I saw the weather seen it was 96 degrees I was hoping y’all power would come back on I living Atlanta at this time I tell you they kept this blackout on the news…

Indeed it was.

YOU WAS SO LUCKY TO BE SO YOUNG BACK THEN. UNFORTUNATELY FOR ME I WAS 19 LIVING IN THE BROWNSVILLE SECTION OF BROOKLYN (RALPH AVE & UNION ST) AND WAS IN A SUPERMARKET ABOUT 5 BLOCKS FROM THE HOUSE WITH MY MOTHER(RIP MOM) AND MY SISTER GETTING INGREDIENTS FOR DINNER WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE LIGHTS STARTED TO FLICKER THEN THE POWER WENT OUT ABOUT 20 SECONDS LATER AND WE HAD TO LEAVE THE STORE. WHILE WE WERE CHECKING OUT I NOTICED THE 3 TRAIN THAT RUNS PAST THE STORE WAS STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF A KIND OF SHARP TURN AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS WEIRD ( THIS WAS BEFORE I FOUND OUT THE TRACKS POWER THE TRAIN AND DOESN'T RUN ON ITS OWN POWER INDEPENDENT OF THE TRACKS). SO WE WALKED HOME AND EVERYONE WAS OUTSIDE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED AND HOW TO GET POWER AND CANDLES FOR THE NIGHT. WELL WE GOT SOME CANDLES FROM THE CORNER STORE AND LIT THEM AROUND THE HOUSE SO IT WASN'T THAT DARK IN THE HOUSE AND LUCKY WE HAD 2 PORTABLE GAS STOVES TO COOK DINNER(FRIED CHICKEN AND MASHED POTATOES) AND JUST SOMEHOW SLEEP THROUGH THE HOTTEST NIGHT EVER WITHOUT THE AIR CONDITIONER. WE WAS SO HAPPY WHEN AT 2:20PM THE NEXT DAY WHEN WE WERE PREPARING FOR ANOTHER HOT NIGHT THE BATHROOM LIGHT CAME ON AND WE TURNED ON THE AIR CONDITIONER SO FAST IT WAS GREAT FOR THAT TO BE OVER BUT IM STILL PISSED ABOUT ONE THING ABOUT THAT NIGHT THAT WWE OR UPN DIDN'T RE-AIR THE EPISODE OF SMACKDOWN I MISSED BECAUSE NYC DIDN'T HAVE POWER!!

@@richiebee1984 So sorry for you. The Con Edison has gotten the electricity back to power again. 😀

I remember when the power went out in a department store i was working at in 2003. I was in the bathroom taking a mean shit and the lights started flickering and the automatic tissues dispensing machine stop working and i had to walk home with a shitty ass

Starret city was the only neighborhood lit in the whole nyc

@@Josephbad007poor you that nasty as fuck you took a shit then you can’t whip your ass lol…

77 BLACKOUT WAS WORSE LOOTINGS FIRES

​@@ekop1778no looting this time?

@@billblaski9523 AQQQQ SHUCKS! I WANT THAT FANCY LOUIS BAG

perfectly said. nyc was still just 2 yrs removed from guilliani law and order and people just knew not to fk around and that the nypd would be crushing skulls. no more. would be a nightmare of epic proportions. no home would be safe from people of color.

nyc was going downhill pre covid. DeBlasio taking office is what started it. it is definitely worse now than it was in 2019 though. if the blackout happened in in 2019 it would be a lot worse than in 2003. and it would be even worse today. i also think being less than 2 years after 9/11 was also a big factor in people having a "we're in this together" mindset. That was still extremely fresh on everyone's mind. I was stuck on the train for about 2 hours and walked about 100 blocks to meet up with friends I was on my way to meet. I was basically halfway between them and home so I figured that would be more fun. People were extremely nice and friendly overall. No looting. a lot of people hanging out drinking etc.

I was at union square but there was a bonfire and dancing

@@compteprivefr Yes I remember it well. The bonfire was in front of the George Washington statue on the horse area where the kids stateboard off the steps.

I took a shower at a playground next to Asher levy pool on 23rd st and fdr. Lived on the 16th floor in pedro ibizu Campos plaza next to the con Edison plant. Electricity is need to pump water up. Took out the rotary phone unplugged the cordless. As Archie Bunker and Edith sang " those were the days".

I was in union square working and walked all the way back to astoria queens

I was 8 years old living in Mount Vernon i remember having to walk around my apartment with a flashlight. We invited our local neighbor kids and had a great time lol.

i actually remember stores in manhattan giving out bottled water or at worse selling it at normal prices and giving out meat and ice cream that was just going to go bad.

They did the same thing on 9-11. I heard they were charging $100 for a pack of water.

YES! My mother said the same. I was too young to remember.

I took a shower at a playground next to Asher levy pool on 23rd st and fdr. Lived on the 16th floor in pedro ibizu Campos plaza next to the con Edison plant. Electricity is need to pump water up. Took out the rotary phone unplugged the cordless. As Archie Bunker and Edith sang " those were the days".

@@ManChan-w5p HEY UH MEATHEAD! WHERES YOU GOING? OUT!!!!!!! WELL GO OUT IN THE KITCHEN AND GET ME A BEER! YEP THERE WERE THE DAYS I WAS 6 THEN- IT WAS DARK AND HOT- BARELY REMEMBER- WHEWWWWW WE LIVE ON THE NY STONES THROW FROM GREENWICH,CT STILL DO NOW! LUCKY WE HAD A OLD GENERATOR FOR SHOWERS POWER WAS OUT ALL OVER THE NORTH EAST

I saw documentary about that blackout yeah that one was very scary they had riot in burn mostly the neighborhood down…

Always got to be some racist jack azz making a stupid comment. Shouldn't you be worried about your cult leader Trump, who just got indicted today in Georgia for the 4th time ????????

It wouldn’t be no riot this happened again it didn’t happened in Houston we had blackout for the winter storm in another one for the storm happens recently. Stop thinking only blm people do riot that kids that doing that shit not blm…

Did the cops try to stop it

@@Frankieefootballmundial I was living in Rockaway Park Queens and I took the Q35 into Brooklyn because I was working downtown Brooklyn. Then I had 2 transfer over 2 the B41. Flatbush Ave got tore up with looting. I saw from the B41 bus how basically some stores got broken into with the glass broken etc..

i basically did the opposite walk.

DAMN....

Wow

“Back when Republicans were in office and there was low crime and camaraderie” ☝️🤓

It was a Democratic mayor at the time (Bloomberg), however, he made sure the city was safe just like Guiliani did.

No Dumblasio or sadams.

@@cashonly2539 I was living in NY at the time and it was pretty safe. Just avoid the South Bronx and Central Brooklyn and you were OK. I would walk around Harlem and Washington Heights and nothing happened to me.

Nyc was blue for you know that…