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A blackout in New York back in 1977 prompted riots, looting and mayhem in the city causing millions of dollars worth of damage. Lightning knocked out electricity for 25 hours on July 13 ...

A Change.org petition calling for a full dimming in honor of actor Gavin Creel garnered more than 23,000 supporters.

10-29-94 NBC Blackout Thursday ad Friends ... Marvel movies announced after Disney purchased 20th Century Fox's entertainment ...

Tom Foty: July 13th, another blackout hits New York. A recap after this. Tom Foty: It had happened once before 12 years earlier. The 1965 Northeast Blackout caused relatively little trouble.

The New York Times — if you’re without it, you’re not with it. —New York City subway advertisement Last week some 730,000 regular Times readers were not with it. But not by choice.

A number of more limited blackouts occurred in the New York City region since then, with the 1977 NYC blackout being highly notable. This blackout started with a lightning strike on a substation ...

A viral photo of three fast-food chains on a Brooklyn street corner is something of a Rorschach test on social media. It has multiple meanings for New Yorkers, too.

By The New York Times Critic’s Pick David Henry Hwang’s 2007 satire, directed by Leigh Silverman, arrives on Broadway starring ... after a drunken blackout, finds herself transported to ...

29 at the Orpheum Theatre in New York’s East Village ... an actress who wakes up from being blackout drunk only to find herself trapped in an off-Broadway Golden Age musical.