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A map of the states and provinces affected. Not all areas within the political boundaries were blacked out. The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in ...
Manhattan skyline around 1970. A fiscal conservative, Democrat Ed Koch, was elected as mayor in 1977. By 1977–78, New York City had eliminated its short-term debt. By 1985, the City no longer needed the support of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, and it voted itself out of existence.
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. [3] [4] The only unaffected neighborhoods in the city were in southern Queens (including neighborhoods of the Rockaways), which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system, as well as the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, and a few other large apartment and ...
March 12— Indonesia —A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung. [ 75 ] July 13— Azerbaijan — Baku and nearly the entirety of the country experienced a blackout due to unknown causes. [ 76 ] April 30—United States—Nearly all of JEA 's 355,000 customers in Jacksonville, Florida, lost power.
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? is a 1968 American comedy film with Doris Day, directed by Hy Averback.Although it is set in New York City during the infamous Northeast blackout of 1965, in which 25 million people scattered throughout seven states in the Northeastern United States lost electricity for several hours, the screenplay by Everett Freeman and Karl Tunberg is based on the ...
Abraham David Beame (né Birnbaum; March 20, 1906 – February 10, 2001) [2] was an American accountant, investor, and Democratic Party politician who was the 104th mayor of New York City, in office from 1974 to 1977. [3] As mayor, he presided over the city during the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, when the city was almost forced to declare ...
The revised (1963) New York City Charter creates community boards within each borough. [62] Cross Bronx Expressway completed. 1965 - November 9: Northeast blackout of 1965. 1966 - Herman Badillo becomes the eighth borough president. [20] 1967 City University of New York's Lehman College established. Hunts Point Terminal Market opens. [18] 1968
Shea Stadium (/ ʃeɪ / SHAY), formally known as William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. [ 7 ] Opened in 1964, it was home to the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1964 to 2008, as well as the New York Jets of the American Football League (AFL) and ...