In 1977, crime was out of control and New York City's economy was cratering. Then the lights went out.
At the time, New York was suffering from a poor economy and a blistering July heat wave. Stores were looted and public amenities were vandalized en masse.
Harris also remembered how New Yorkers raided supermarkets and filled shopping carts with stolen food. The looting was happening throughout the entire city, he said.on that era of American society titled “How We Got Here” — wrote that during the first night of the blackout, 75 stores were looted and damaged in Crown Heights and 134 stores on Broadway in Brooklyn were also looted, 45 of which were set on fire.
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