40 years ago today, New York City was plunged into a blackout that led to looting, arson and thousands of arrests. | Spectrum News NY1

8K views · 80 reactions | Channel 7 is celebrating 50 years of Eyewitness News this month. To help mark five decades of covering this amazing city, here’s a look back at how the Big Apple made it through the New York City Blackout of 1977. https://7ny.tv/2OC5K06 | ABC7NY | Facebook

This heat wave’s got us flashing back to the 1977 New York City blackout—and not in a nostalgic way. 🥵 For all our Gen Z and millennial friends: the power grid couldn’t handle the pressure back then, and the whole city went dark. We mean pitch black. No AC, no streetlights, no subways—just sweat, sirens, and a whole lotta chaos. We were just girls, fanning ourselves on the stoop and listening to updates on tiny radios while the world melted around us. That skyline shot we used in the video? Tha

384K views · 1.6K reactions | 40 years ago tonight, just about right now, it happened. The lights went out across New York. The terrifying 1977 blackout was underway. Do you remember that blackout? | WPIX Archives | Facebook