77+blackout

** The 1977 blackout was when all the lights went out in Brooklyn, Bronx, and Manhattan. when all the lights went out people were stuck on trains or at work. The blackout mostly affected the people in Bushwick. Bushwick had so many arsons it was crazy. after the fire department was done broadway was flooded. Bushwick was in need of attention so when the blackout happened, they used it as an opportunitie to get the attention they needed. When the blackout happened that when evreyone went crazy in bushwick. They started breaking into stores on broadway.

Within minutess, ordinary people who had been sitting on stoops turned into raging mobs in one neighborhood after another, from Tremont Avenue in the Bronx to Jamaica, Queens. They looted hundreds of stores, carting off anything they could grab with two hands. They set fires. For the devastated Bushwick section of Brooklyn, this was but a prelude to weeks of repeated arson. The craziness was so widespread that 4,000 people were arrested in the blackout, which lasted 25 hours in some areas. It was a summer when it truly looked as though New York might have had it." ** ** Haberman, Clyde. 11 July 1997. "'77 Blackout: The Heart Of Darkness" // New York Times: // B

** ** "The police at first sent large forces to guard the major expensive shopping areas of downtown Manhattan and left the smaller local shopping areas with little or no protection. When the looting went rampant in local section of the city, the media labeled the perpetrators as 'savages' and 'animals' and demanded maximum court action" ** **Sugarman, Robert. November 1978. "New York City's Blackout: A $350 Million Drain." // IEEE Spectrum: // __// 44-46 //__

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