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When the Lights Went Out | New York City News
In 1965, a massive blackout plunged New York, New England, and parts of Canada into darkness—forcing people to queue for payphones and sparking a reckoning with our tech-dependent lives. While some feared the sudden silence, others embraced a rare freedom from plugged-in routines. A decade later, the 1977 blackout ignited chaos and record arrests, reshaping NYC’s future. Recent discussions revisiting these events—with 2003 and 2012 outages included—reveal how historical disruptions still echo in our hyper-connected world, reminding us that even in modernity, moments of outage reveal our…
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