New York City blackout renews attention to CHNM project

Following the massive power outages that hit the northeastern United States in August 2003, The Blackout Project – a CHNM website that covers the history of New York City’s great blackouts of 1965 and 1977 – received sudden, unprecedented attention. The news media as well and those who remember the earlier blackouts came to the site to learn more and to reminisce. Almost a hundred people added their stories to the growing oral history archive on the site.

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