![Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, after the 1977 blackout in New York City.](https://cdn.viewing.nyc/assets/media/196ac85607ac213371d480288a9be1c3/elements/4551bdb115e0adc3a466c49ef097b1fe/xl/7bc45ad8-94c9-472a-a59a-36fa948255a8_2x.jpg)
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The New York City Blackout of 1977 was an electrical blackout on July 13th-14th in which rioting and looting occurred across the City in the evening hours. In this vintage photograph captured on the 14th, see the aftermath in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, on what is possibly Macon Street.
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