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Ferry boat accident on Randalls Island in 1904. Thousand people died. Also the NYC draft riots in 1863. Colera outbreak of the 19th century. Nyc is home a huge number of disasters. Great NY fire.
Don't know why, but the Happy Land fire in the Bronx in 1990 always stays with me. One drunken guy teed off with his girl, and he kills 87 folks who were just out having a good time. And also, I think this one stays with me because Law & Order did a particularly powerful episode based on it. Worst I can remember until 9/11.
And I do remember the plane crash that November. Everybody thought at first that it was more terrorism, but it wasn't. That sticks with me becaue I was living in Washington Heights when it happened and most of the passengers were Dominican.
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My son was born during the 2003 blackout. I was still in the hospital with a bunch of visitors right before the power flickered. (generator kicked in).
I remember the 2003 blackout well. When the power went out, I was actually at a pizzeria on Fulton and Washington. Vanilla Pepsi had recently come out, and a friend and I were ordering a slice to go along with the drink. The lights went out in the store and everybody thought it was a localized outage at first. Upon looking at the stores outside, however, and seeing the ceiling fans at the hardware store down the block winding down), I knew we had a blackout. I didn't realize how bad things were until I got home, though.
I remember the 2003 blackout well. When the power went out, I was actually at a pizzeria on Fulton and Washington. Vanilla Pepsi had recently come out, and a friend and I were ordering a slice to go along with the drink. The lights went out in the store and everybody thought it was a localized outage at first. Upon looking at the stores outside, however, and seeing the ceiling fans at the hardware store down the block winding down), I knew we had a blackout. I didn't realize how bad things were until I got home, though.
Blackout of 2003 was nothing compared to the 1977 major one.
Thank goodness was still a kid living at home on Staten Island where things were largely quiet. You heard things over the radio (news) about how bad things were in the City and other boroughs. Then of course when power started coming back on you saw television news coverage of the looting and so forth. For years kept news paper clippings of the event in a scrap book. Think my dad probably threw that and them away during a major house cleaning years after I moved out.
Super storm Sandy equally was a non-event for me at home (UES). It wasn't until woke up the next morning and began watching the news/got on the computer that the devastation became known, particularly for my peeps on The Rock. Manhattan was literally a tale of two cites. Below say 34th Street was a mess, north of it not so much.
As a kid and teenager coming up remember NYC used to have far more major snowstorms than now. I mean real bad-ass heavy deep snow storms. Worse the weather remained cold so the stuff stuck around for weeks.
My school had one of those old fashioned huge walk in cloak rooms for each classroom. Once winter hit it would be full of galoshes, boots, coats, scarves, hats, snow suits (remember those?). It took ages to put all that back on so often we lost a good part of recess while everyone waited for that last kid to get dressed. Back then you could have "real" snow/dodge ball fights at recess. Now of course I think they are banned.
Don't know shy, but the Happy Land fire in the Bronx in 1990 always stays with me. One drunken guy teed off with his girl, and he kills 87 folks who were just out having a good time. And also, I think this one stays with me because Law & Order did a particularly powerful episode based on it. Worst I can remember until 9/11.
And I do remember the plane crash that November. Everybody thought at first that it was more terrorism, but it wasn't. That sticks with me becaue I was living in Washington Heights when it happened and most of the passengers were Dominican.
Yeah Happy Land.....all the 80s babies remember that one....that **** was real.....I was....9 or 10.
That one sticks out for me too. That was old Bronx.
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and Sandy sucked big time! I did not have power for 11 days and did not get heat back until December 2nd! No A train for almost 8 months, fights between other straphangers every morning on that 52 bus, I hope I never have to go through that ever again!!!!!!
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A good thing the US never went to war with the Soviets, it would have been a disaster here in NYC. Soviets planned to damage the infrastructure of the northeast.
Don't know why, but the Happy Land fire in the Bronx in 1990 always stays with me. One drunken guy teed off with his girl, and he kills 87 folks who were just out having a good time. And also, I think this one stays with me because Law & Order did a particularly powerful episode based on it. Worst I can remember until 9/11.
Weird that the Happy Land Fire and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire both happened on a March 25th.
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