News footage from July 13, 1977 - when a Blackout hit NYC. FDNY operates at MANY arson fires amid the looting and chaos. This clip is from Bushwick, Brooklyn, neighborhood burning ! Credit to Sheldon Levy, who shot this footage !! (Best upload yet containing the audio, last minute is blurred up) R1SmokeEater Collection.
talk about a hot mess!!
desertshore 2 months ago
Never realized all the great footage Sheldon (RIP) got.
lizard389 5 months ago in playlist More videos from R1SmokeEater
London has just gone through something like this, but the cause in London was more like the LA riots.
ultraback29 5 months ago 2
Are you sure this isn't maybe... July 14??? The morning after the black out started??
BreezesofConey 7 months ago
Part of this video feels 1970s because of the chaos.
But part of it does not to me because it feels like a home video, given the absence of a reporter's voice.
ultraback29 9 months ago
Amazing some of these neighborhoods still stand after the firestorms of that decade.
ladder06 1 year ago