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

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

It has been 40 years since the New York City blackout of 1977. Visit The New York Times’s archive — known as the morgue — to see how we covered two chaotic days. | Video From The New York Times