1977 New York City blackout as covered by Eyewitness News

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  • Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
  • 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...

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  • @samuelgriffin4223
    @samuelgriffin4223 2 года назад +18

    The summer of 1977 New York City blackout remember this so well as a nine year old boy

    • @tyrese3745
      @tyrese3745 2 месяца назад

      The Son of Sam was no better either. Much of NYC was feeling the terror when David Berkowitz was on a killing spree.

  • @Eric-sn4qz
    @Eric-sn4qz 2 года назад +31

    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.

  • @user-tt8uh9kj6h
    @user-tt8uh9kj6h 2 года назад +21

    New Yorker’’s 70’s accent 👌🏼

  • @raygordonteacheschess5501
    @raygordonteacheschess5501 3 года назад +14

    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.

  • @thisguyhere6641
    @thisguyhere6641 3 года назад +28

    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!

    • @dwartbg1
      @dwartbg1 3 года назад +4

      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.

    • @jmc7504
      @jmc7504 3 года назад +8

      yanks did win world series

    • @Eric-sn4qz
      @Eric-sn4qz 2 года назад

      A shithouse.

    • @1575murray
      @1575murray Год назад +2

      @@jmc7504 I was at the last game in Yankee Stadium when Reggie Jackson hit three home runs.

    • @melaniemightly1306
      @melaniemightly1306 10 месяцев назад

      I am trying to day that a teenager of cor,is a dirty alley drug addict!.Queens village people are mean!!!.I eD whipped.

  • @emilrodriguez2705
    @emilrodriguez2705 4 года назад +8

    I was 9 when that all went down. And yes that was Spencer Christian from Good Morning America!

    • @samuelrobinson9300
      @samuelrobinson9300 4 года назад

      Emil Rodriguez I was 2 so don’t remember a thing( Bronx)

  • @frankesposito2182
    @frankesposito2182 5 лет назад +17

    Man....NYC was so Dangerous!

  • @Sky-y5i1b
    @Sky-y5i1b 4 года назад +8

    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.

  • @edwinvalenzuela7113
    @edwinvalenzuela7113 3 года назад +5

    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.

  • @kristianl7797
    @kristianl7797 Год назад +4

    0:28 So that’s what they called blackouts in the 70s.

  • @MrAitraining
    @MrAitraining 3 года назад +15

    Back when looting was frowned upon

  • @basementbomber
    @basementbomber 5 лет назад +23

    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.

    • @raygordonteacheschess5501
      @raygordonteacheschess5501 3 года назад +5

      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.

    • @Therickestrick-o8g
      @Therickestrick-o8g 2 года назад

      105° or 113 °

  • @Gio-vf1zf
    @Gio-vf1zf 2 года назад +2

    I was 5. I only remembered all of us coming out to the streets with candles.

  • @jeffbengert2863
    @jeffbengert2863 2 года назад +5

    Where's Roger Grimsby?????

  • @tonjerichards9667
    @tonjerichards9667 3 года назад +6

    An act of extraterrestrials perhaps, when you consider the uk’s unusual television broadcast transmission interruption which happened in November 1977

  • @SeeTheManipulation
    @SeeTheManipulation 2 года назад +2

    *I'll be honest but more importantly the statue of limitations has run out. But I didn't think clipping those wires would cause such a big mess. 🤣🤣*

  • @JuanMartinez-fr3hs
    @JuanMartinez-fr3hs 4 года назад +6

    I was born December of that year ..... I missed it 😆

  • @ForeignerFan74
    @ForeignerFan74 5 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks For Sharing!

  • @JamalMcCoy-tx2vz
    @JamalMcCoy-tx2vz 2 месяца назад

    I was about to turn 6 years old on the 24th of that steamy summer of 77... But I remember it well😊😊😊

  • @elisapendleton5710
    @elisapendleton5710 Год назад +1

    I was six years old at the time wow

  • @carlosantana-sw1vf
    @carlosantana-sw1vf 5 месяцев назад

    This was my families only vacation, so we missed it but came back and everything in the fridge was spoiled.

  • @brennocalderan2201
    @brennocalderan2201 4 года назад +7

    Not even the city itself could bear the violence and turned off the lights.

    • @DonAltopio
      @DonAltopio 5 часов назад

      ... and let the criminals commit crime to jail them, right .. genius 😂

  • @brooklynbaby76able
    @brooklynbaby76able 2 года назад +2

    Wow my mom told me the story of this in NYC. I was just born.

  • @ForeignerFan74
    @ForeignerFan74 5 месяцев назад +1

    I Was Three Years Old And My Brother Was One Years Old!

  • @mortimerm1879
    @mortimerm1879 3 года назад +1

    remember this...i was watching Baretta and they screen went blank

  • @alexgonzalez6371
    @alexgonzalez6371 5 лет назад +7

    The Eyewitness news crew all men at that time

  • @Bigekanelives
    @Bigekanelives 4 года назад +1

    There was another back out this morning

  • @SamuelGriffin-zt1ze
    @SamuelGriffin-zt1ze 4 месяца назад

    Energy crisis was tough especially New York

  • @onetakesun694
    @onetakesun694 3 года назад +1

    I was in sleep away camp when that happened!

  • @MimaKnows123
    @MimaKnows123 Год назад +1

    John Johnson looks annoyed... 😂

  • @chrystallimon
    @chrystallimon 3 года назад +4

    The same year the aliens did a live broadcast interruption

  • @webking185
    @webking185 2 года назад

    July 13, 2022 (45 years ago) cannot believe it.

  • @samholden9660
    @samholden9660 2 года назад +1

    My birthday was on this day I turned 7yrs old

  • @charliecili
    @charliecili 2 месяца назад

    Just out of curiosity who would be watching this broadcast lol

    • @Bart-holow-mew
      @Bart-holow-mew Месяц назад

      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.

  • @johnstratton7470
    @johnstratton7470 2 года назад +1

    Was born less two months before that happened

  • @venetiazaharias3084
    @venetiazaharias3084 2 года назад

    I remember that

  • @clairemcnutt534
    @clairemcnutt534 3 года назад

    i miss those day

  • @domxem5551
    @domxem5551 4 года назад

    Nothing has changed

  • @SamuelGriffin-zt1ze
    @SamuelGriffin-zt1ze 4 месяца назад

    Remember Conrail

  • @webking185
    @webking185 2 года назад

    here on black out 1977, 45 years ago!

  • @Matthews_Back
    @Matthews_Back 4 года назад +2

    The History of (7)

  • @Therickestrick-o8g
    @Therickestrick-o8g 2 года назад +1

    MIB

  • @dirtyroofer3678
    @dirtyroofer3678 5 лет назад +1

    I was little and it wasn't fun

  • @raygordonteacheschess5501
    @raygordonteacheschess5501 3 года назад +1

    Kane would wind up in Philadelphia.

    • @HelloooThere
      @HelloooThere 9 месяцев назад +1

      HE WAS ABLE

    • @antonsmith9788
      @antonsmith9788 3 месяца назад

      @@HelloooThere: I see what you did there! 😜

  • @Losfhc
    @Losfhc Год назад

    I was 3 weeks old 👶

  • @brianmcnutt3610
    @brianmcnutt3610 11 месяцев назад

    6 year old me days

  • @tuuthreee
    @tuuthreee 5 лет назад +4

    2019?

  • @Seekthetruth3000
    @Seekthetruth3000 2 месяца назад

    Democrats!

  • @amandamarcelle2572
    @amandamarcelle2572 10 месяцев назад

    It was grandmas 32nd birthday that day

  • @vladimirputinforUSA
    @vladimirputinforUSA 2 года назад

    Savage Nomads

  • @SamuelGriffin-zt1ze
    @SamuelGriffin-zt1ze 4 месяца назад

    Hot and sweaty moments