I'll never forget this! I had to walk down from nearly the top floor of my office building and walk all the way home to Brooklyn! Thank goodness I was only 28! Couldn't do it now..Lol
NY was on the verge of collapse in '77, we had more strikes than France, everybody was losing money, ghettos & barriers bore the brunt of the crisis, people were laid off, etc, but in spite of all that, it was fun to grow up in NY back then. 😊
New york cosmos were great at that time and the looting made it possible for some djs to get some equipment to get their dj careers starting if you want to get some positives of that looting
I remember the black out of 1977 i was 21 years old living in Harlem NY it was very bad i just came in the house with my brother something after 9pm and the lights blink then went out and every body said black out i told my brother lets go back out side and see what is going on i had a new car and my mother told me to be careful out there we rode around and looting started to happen it was very bad and wrong, 125th st was totally destroyed it was a day i will never forget that whole year was crazy lots of things happen that year, starting with the Son of Sam, the Yanks winning the world series the birth of Star Wars and Saturday Night fever, Studio 54 was in full swing, this was my second black out i dealth with one on November 9, 1965 then later on August 14, 2003.
I remember at 10yrs of age taking swimming lessons at the YMCA in Harlem at the time. Everyone in the streets had brand new stuff Bikes, sneakers DJ equipment. etc.
Hello, northeast Ohio here. I was 4 years old in 1977. With all the insane, and I mean insane, crimes happening in Manhattan these days (autumn 2022), can you imagine how much worse a power outage would be there now? I hope it doesn't happen.
I told one of my friends this. Even in small rural towns, it will be like this. Our modern civilization is built on electricity. He told me that his outstanding community was going to come together and figure the situation out. I told him that he should probably just stay in his house if it happens.
With the son of Sam killings, the blackout, Yankees winning the World Series, the release of Saturday Night Fever later that year , even though it took place in Brooklyn, New York city was pretty much in the spotlight in 1977.
I was at Jones Beach in Brooklyn NYC, with my mother and Aunt Harriet. We had no clue, what was going on until we got in the car to go home and the traffic lights were not working properly. I had just graduated High School. And the film from my Graduation was at the Pharmacy to be developed. Needless to say during that night the Pharmacy was part of the looting that happened, so no photos got developed. I will never forget those 2 days.
It was a beautiful night in my neighborhood which was Bensonhurst Brooklyn. My friends & I played Ring-o-lario in the streets. Everyone was hanging out on the stoops. No problems whatsoever. We never locked the doors including that night. I wonder why?
Sam Bradley- what a coincidence, I was in Panama too when it happened, my Father was a career soldier- U.S. Army stationed @ Ft.Clayton, Panama,his very first duty station...our family toured with him. I had to be at least 4yrs old...But I do have memories of Panama. The beach, monsoon rains, downtown stores, the thatched bamboo huts for picnics... I remember high tide at the beach, a jeep was stranded out there. Wow!
@@Ayeiproductions BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell on 9/11 and no one can give a straight answer as to why a building that was not attacked would come down
nyc couldn't have gotten more unstable & chaotic, but it did that night. I know of a few shopkeepers there whose businesses were destroyed then. But did they get any help from any government agency? OF COURSE NOT!!!!!! No surprise there!!!!!
i was only 8yrs old and lived in sherman ave when this blackout happened. My dad that night had gone to shoprite supermarket with my uncle and came back with a large t.v. from Crazy Eddies. He said: the store's were being looted and someone handed him a t.v. Years later when my dad told that story i said: yeaaahhh right..!🤣🤣🤣
Googling about new york blackout after watched John Carpenter's "Escape from New York" movie to see how was the blackout in NYC, so weird to see new york in the dark 😱
No such thing would happen is USSR. They would not dare. It is not poverty, but lack of boundaries. As today. We lived from hand to mouth is Soviet Union. Most of us. But our multicultural project went south.
I use to live in Jamaica NYC with the my family off 119 Ave & 146 st, and I was walking my brothers dog the light went out, and evey body went crazy, as for me i was cool & calm but scared shitlless and lettet return home thx to my mother calling out my name with a lit candle in her hand.
I lived when the black out occurred and it was interesting but no one panic. People now a days would go crazy without their electronics cells, computers and no lights. LOL.
This is why I'm glad I built my own van of the great that's exactly why I'm doing it to live out of it safely and to get off the grid so I'm not dependent on the system we are too dependent on the grid... look what happened look at you just a small part of Manhattan today or yesterday it could be worse next time stop depending on the great things need to change...
In Houston it was worse it was my first black out I was glad my uncle call my mom we went there. Return too my house February 18 all the was light on...
The blackout was orchestrated for hip hop to proliferate. The next year DJ crews and MCs came out of the wood work... All Thanks to the 77 Blackout. Auxiliary looting would've happened anyway but on the real...That Blackout was that - Dr Strange to Tony Stark "This is That Moment" The defining moment anybody who wanted to make a come up stepped up. True that..many got locked up but madd niggaz who didn't get caught up blew up.
I'll never forget this! I had to walk down from nearly the top floor of my office building and walk all the way home to Brooklyn! Thank goodness I was only 28! Couldn't do it now..Lol
NY was on the verge of collapse in '77, we had more strikes than France, everybody was losing money, ghettos & barriers bore the brunt of the crisis, people were laid off, etc, but in spite of all that, it was fun to grow up in NY back then. 😊
Sam Bradley Me as well. Glad I bought real estate back then and held
i heard some ppl burnt apartment complexities for the insurance what a time to be alive
It looked fun and actually looked kinda cool imo
@@rmdo5583 easy for you to say typing this shit in the peaceful comfort of ur home
New york cosmos were great at that time and the looting made it possible for some djs to get some equipment to get their dj careers starting if you want to get some positives of that looting
I remember the black out of 1977 i was 21 years old living in Harlem NY it was very bad i just came in the house with my brother something after 9pm and the lights blink then went out and every body said black out i told my brother lets go back out side and see what is going on i had a new car and my mother told me to be careful out there we rode around and looting started to happen it was very bad and wrong, 125th st was totally destroyed it was a day i will never forget that whole year was crazy lots of things happen that year, starting with the Son of Sam, the Yanks winning the world series the birth of Star Wars and Saturday Night fever, Studio 54 was in full swing, this was my second black out i dealth with one on November 9, 1965 then later on August 14, 2003.
ur old man
1977 my parents still a teenagers LoL
good thing you drove the car so it didn't get smashed
Yea. But you were in the 70s. Your economy was worse then even now! Your cars sucked.
@@deoglemnaco7025 Where are u from that you are so negative????
And it happens again just hours after NBC airs the story
I wasn't even born in 1977
I was born may 3 1990 early 90s
@@unknownwolf4046 only fans are you know what happened remember reel thing feel like a
I remember at 10yrs of age taking swimming lessons at the YMCA in Harlem at the time. Everyone in the streets had brand new stuff Bikes, sneakers DJ equipment. etc.
Those twin towers though, man i miss em.
I’m feel so bad for everyone going through that experience 🤧😖😩
@NettiesKid 2294 Yeah, maybe they only made the new one for flipping them off.
@@IllaDillaJ February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001, never forget.
This is why an EMP would take us out.
Yeah but we would have to not get any electricity back for a while to actually have that happen
Hello, northeast Ohio here. I was 4 years old in 1977. With all the insane, and I mean insane, crimes happening in Manhattan these days (autumn 2022), can you imagine how much worse a power outage would be there now? I hope it doesn't happen.
Crazy how my mom was born in 1977 and I was born in 2003 and there was a blackout both years
How throughly crazy
it's because you're black
Blackout babies
0:13 “There was absolutely no panic”
What? There was a lot of panic because of people looting rioting and arson!!
An example of what mega cities will be like when SHTF
I told one of my friends this. Even in small rural towns, it will be like this. Our modern civilization is built on electricity.
He told me that his outstanding community was going to come together and figure the situation out. I told him that he should probably just stay in his house if it happens.
The Mountain Sage did you meet Sadhguru?! Please tell me what that was like!
that little ball thing from MIB 1 caused it~~
Dude thought it was funny
He really thought he was a prankster
They call them blackouts for 2 reasons
So happy that people were decent this time (2019). Ray of hope for humanity.
That's how the 1965 blackout was described. People came together and helped each other. So much innocence only a decade earlier.
With the son of Sam killings, the blackout, Yankees winning the World Series, the release of Saturday Night Fever later that year , even though it took place in Brooklyn, New York city was pretty much in the spotlight in 1977.
How was this caused by lightning strikes? That seems like a very preventable problem.
It's coming again in 2022...I hope you are ready for the power to turn off.
Yeah, in Texas 😂
so many people don't even know this happened. sad.
We are going to NYC this summer! Hopefully there will be no more blackouts this summer!
NissanFrontierLover_TH-cam uh oh
Well who’s gonna tell OldTrucksRule
chaz charles ?
I was at Jones Beach in Brooklyn NYC, with my mother and Aunt Harriet. We had no clue, what was going on until we got in the car to go home and the traffic lights were not working properly. I had just graduated High School. And the film from my Graduation was at the Pharmacy to be developed. Needless to say during that night the Pharmacy was part of the looting that happened, so no photos got developed. I will never forget those 2 days.
It was a beautiful night in my neighborhood which was Bensonhurst Brooklyn. My friends & I played Ring-o-lario in the streets. Everyone was hanging out on the stoops. No problems whatsoever. We never locked the doors including that night. I wonder why?
2:46 Yea, I'm sure after couple hours without electricity, these people were desperate for $400k worth of shoes. Starving and thirsty for shoes.
Don't remember the first blackout in New York City in 1965 wasn't born yet
0:04 "the streetwalkers in Times Square" ?
I thank God everyday that I was in Panama when it happened. 😊😇
Sam Bradley- what a coincidence, I was in Panama too when it happened, my Father was a career soldier- U.S. Army stationed @ Ft.Clayton, Panama,his very first duty station...our family toured with him. I had to be at least 4yrs old...But I do have memories of Panama. The beach, monsoon rains, downtown stores, the thatched bamboo huts for picnics... I remember high tide at the beach, a jeep was stranded out there. Wow!
@@barryjohnson409 yes, such memories & it was the 1st time I saw it since I was born there nearly a decade earlier. 😊
@@sambradley1968 - a beautiful country, Panama, C.A. & S.A. 🏝
Did they post this video right before the 2019 blackout today lol? 😂
Anakin Sandwalker 1977 again or you can the 80’s again
Oh WoW
yeah like building 7
crazy plate what building 7?
@@Ayeiproductions BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell on 9/11 and no one can give a straight answer as to why a building that was not attacked would come down
What A Year🙌🏻❤️ NY
I am sure stores at that time were damaged due to the blackout
I was on vacation in Panama when it happened. 😊💡
Sam, please read my comment.
@@barryjohnson409 what?
What Blackout? It was Dark I could not see it
Lol underrated
I remember it well i was 10 years old
42 years later same thing.
inside job just like 9.11
xav stop
xav stfu
Where is batman when we need him?
New York City in 1977 was hectic
My mom was there. She always tells me the story. That shit was crazy.
nyc couldn't have gotten more unstable & chaotic, but it did that night. I know of a few shopkeepers there whose businesses were destroyed then. But did they get any help from any government agency? OF COURSE NOT!!!!!! No surprise there!!!!!
What does setting buildings on fire solve?
Fire illuminates, duh.
It was maybe the landlords that done it for insurance
I was about to turn 5 in September of '77. So I was old enough to remember this. But for some reason I don't. I'm glad I don't remember this.
i was only 8yrs old and lived in sherman ave when this blackout happened. My dad that night had gone to shoprite supermarket with my uncle and came back with a large t.v. from Crazy Eddies. He said: the store's were being looted and someone handed him a t.v. Years later when my dad told that story i said: yeaaahhh right..!🤣🤣🤣
I Remember the 1977 N.Y.C Blackout... I was 8 years old at that time... I got a lot of stories to tell..!!!! It was CRAZZZY!!!!
I’d love to hear your story... I don’t care if it’s long you should leave your email or skype or something
I was 14 and lived in nj
tell us them stories
That’s nutty. I’ve lost power up in Maine for a week before. What just a day can do in an urban environment is wild
Googling about new york blackout after watched John Carpenter's "Escape from New York" movie to see how was the blackout in NYC, so weird to see new york in the dark 😱
Oh my God I remember this as a little girl. I was really scared too.
No such thing would happen is USSR. They would not dare. It is not poverty, but lack of boundaries. As today. We lived from hand to mouth is Soviet Union. Most of us. But our multicultural project went south.
Animals.
It could have been worse!
BLACK OUT.
Means : All the blacks were out
Men In Black brought me here lol
Black out in the Philippines is super normal, most of the time.
But you don't have the panget there.
Thank you 🌹🌹🌹
Note to self never go to NYC on July 13
THIRTEEN!!!
Jk it's just a coincidence
@@EugeneAyindolmah I thought bad luck only happens on Friday The Thirteen? July 13 2019 was a Saturday lol
I went to NYC in 2018 I loved it man 😄
Layoffs and low morale, sounds familiar
My friend was raped on Franklin Street downtown. I asked her if she told the Police. She said" For what?". I was 17.
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope your friend was able to find some peace and have a good life.
Because of overly sensitive people we now have to call it a people of colour out.
What color were the people at the Capitol?
And we meet again in 2020 with yet another black-out.
@Mikayla Lee I think the one on August 7th 2020
There was a blackout in NYC in 2020? How long did it last for? 🤔
When happened.
So when this is nationwide, it'll be alright???
That would be scary as fukk in a city like new York
I remember the 03 one.
Geo Gil I remember the '19 one.
Geo Gil me to
@@KeshiaFowler I walked from queens to the Bronx that day.
I remember the 2019 blackout
I remember 03 was on tv it was the bridge when a lot people was walking that was sad...
I use to live in Jamaica NYC with the my family off 119 Ave & 146 st, and I was walking my brothers dog the light went out, and evey body went crazy, as for me i was cool & calm but scared shitlless and lettet return home thx to my mother calling out my name with a lit candle in her hand.
Was there a story about a ufo abduction during the time this had happened? 😮
I lived when the black out occurred and it was interesting but no one panic. People now a days would go crazy without their electronics cells, computers and no lights. LOL.
They just told you that in 1977, there was looting and burning buildings
In 2019 not one person got hurt
Why haven’t you posted
So no one has a flashlight????
Good point. Even walnuts burn for 10 minutes and give off light. Where are all the walnuts?
JD
@@johndenning9230 The police station had candles.
I'm hearing about Brooklyn areas.
This is why I'm glad I built my own van of the great that's exactly why I'm doing it to live out of it safely and to get off the grid so I'm not dependent on the system we are too dependent on the grid... look what happened look at you just a small part of Manhattan today or yesterday it could be worse next time stop depending on the great things need to change...
@Mary Davis I'm sure I'll be safe wherever I am Off the Grid
0:56 Sounds like the why are you running guy and ugandan knuckles mixed
2019 July and a small blackout in manhattan
Amazing to realize that both the elder people at the beginning are long dead. Damn!
All those people cheering at the end don't seem that desperate lol.
Then 2003 dam
I am here cause Texas Had the black out andit was tough we were below 0 🥶 and had no power in my City Dallas
In Houston it was worse it was my first black out I was glad my uncle call my mom we went there. Return too my house February 18 all the was light on...
NYC news said who cutting power lines underground, cause blackouts
Almost time for another blackout.
Was that blackout happen I'm my BIRTHDAY?!
UFOs that time around.
Poverty is not an excuse.
Mexico didn`t pay the bill
Desperate for shoes after a few hours?
one strike of lighting. imagine a nuclear strike.
@1:35 Interesting, African-Americans formed a human chain to protect Tom's restaurant. But wouldn't do this for they own people til this day in 2024.
Someone threw a ball that bounces at highspeeds at that time. He thought it was a funny prank.
A practical joke by the great attractor. He thought it was funny as hell.
DONE ON PURPOSE!
Has a ny ad and is watching a ny vid...
The blackout was orchestrated for hip hop to proliferate. The next year DJ crews and MCs came out of the wood work... All Thanks to the 77 Blackout. Auxiliary looting would've happened anyway but on the real...That Blackout was that - Dr Strange to Tony Stark "This is That Moment" The defining moment anybody who wanted to make a come up stepped up. True that..many got locked up but madd niggaz who didn't get caught up blew up.
You did NOT just say that the riots started during the 76 blackout cause all the black people woke up at the same time oooooooooooh you bad.
Yo is that Hugh Mungus at the end of the clip???
LADY LIBERTY REMAINED LIGHTED. SHE IS IN NEW JERSEY. THAT'S WHY !!!!!!!!
This is what San Francisco has become today.
The police had staffing issues and low morale back then... keep defunding the police, see what happens.
The warriors based situation
Good times
It's like the purge
It's interesting you say that. I have never seen the purge, but after watching BlackOut documentary on Prime, I would very much like to see The Purge.
If you stay on my country you'rs feel blackout Like a every day,,hhaahaha and we not panic like the others
NYC is too old never happens in other countries that are ultra modern
vsboy 25 Which countries are ultra modern? NYC is one of the youngest megalopolises in the world.
Wow!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!
They mentioned what happened in men in black which what brought me here 😂
lol me too 😂
I remembere take take the civilized kept orde. .Harlem was not burnt to the ground. .the 5% influence
Brownsville is just nasty.
It is. 😐
BLACK
The guy at 2:59 🤣
Craphole then ... And now😏
Memories of Manhattan..too numerous to recall 🍎2022 Subway shootings, 9/11, etc 🙏🙏🙏🥲🇺🇸🌹🌹