Talk:New York City blackout of 1977

Baby Boom Myth?
HI PEOPLE THIS IS NOT TRUE Italic text I noted that the blackout of 1965 page says the increase in births nine months later was later deemed a myth. So it seems appropriate that this page should at least include a footnote for the source of information on this phenomenon happening in 1977. ??

If there is no reliable source for the information, it should be removed.


 * At the very least, it should be noted that statistical correlation does not imply causation. Although it's quite simple to figure out how the supposed "baby boom" might have been caused by the blackout (lacking anything else to do, people had sex), there is no way to prove it so all there is is a correlation. Kurt Weber 17:30, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Has anyone heard of the Baby Train? It's a similar story and usually not true. Katana Geldar 08:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Katana Geldar (talk • contribs)

Harlem is not a borough
Harlem is not a borough, it's a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan. 65.162.115.2 23:33, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Citation for hottest day
''The heat continued for days after the blackout, reaching 102°F on July 19 and 104°F the next day, the second hottest on record. (Mahler p. ?)''

Can someone find the page this is on? I already returned my book to the library. Tim July 21, 2006 1:58

"Manhattan's Broadway"?
Is this attributed? Broadway in Bushwick most certainly had twelve blocks destroyed, but I can see with some degree of certainty that twelve blocks of Broadway in Manhattan weren't. 128.59.100.63 14:29, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Time-magazine-cover-1977-nyc-blackout.jpg
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Cultural references
There is an episode of Third Watch about a citywide blackout that frequently referenced the 1977 event. I'm not sure if it is worth mentioning in this article, but I noticed the reference to the series Swingtown and felt that this episode was more relevant since it actually took place in NYC. Jsbrugg (talk) 21:38, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Didn't the MIB movie state that the blackout was caused by "The Great Attractor?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.168.202.21 (talk) 23:17, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

This article is racist
It unfairly singles out blacks and Puerto Ricans. These hard-working minorities were fed up with whites who forced them to pay for goods that should belong to everybody, and when the whites failed to keep the electricity flowing, the good black race and their puerto rican brethren rose up and righted the wrongs done unto them by evil whites. I demand that the article take my tone instead of the tone of the white racists who wrote this apparently. 173.61.28.186 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:02, 21 August 2009 (UTC).

Hey mutha, are you nuts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.166.207.69 (talk) 23:26, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Dennis Elsas and the blackout
Dennis Elsas discusses ELO and the blackout where he found it ironic that the blackout occurred while ELO was playing, and the lights started going out at the end of one song where the music winds down. "It was ELO that was spinning on the turntable during my show just a few months earlier on July 13, 1977 when a major blackout crippled the New York area. Here’s how it sounded at WNEW-FM when Scott Muni and I returned to the airwaves the following day." http://www.denniselsas.com/bev-beven-elo/ --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling (talk) 03:18, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Temperature?
We keep hearing of the incredible hot weather during that summer in NY. What was the actual temperature? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mizanthrop (talk • contribs) 02:38, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

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Infobox topics and content inappropriate
The Goals and Methods topics in the Infobox are inappropriate. Even if this article is categorized under "Crimes in New York City" and "Riots and Civil Disorder in New York City," it is concerned primarily with a power outage. The "Parties" topics in the Infobox strikes me as inappropriate for the same reason (why would the electrical service providers not be among the parties?), and the fact that the racial background of the looters is being foregrounded so prominently is frankly racist. Jnrizzo412 (talk) 16:21, 9 November 2023 (UTC)