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If You are Too Quiet, You are NOT the Rigger

NYC Centers for Live Entertainment Go Dark in July 13 Blackout

NEW YORK – The 2019 NYC Blackout had a much smaller impact on the city as a whole than the outage that struck exactly 42 years earlier, on July 13, 1977. Even so, New York’s busy live entertainment scene took a direct hit from the loss in power, which struck just before 7 p.m. on a midsummer Saturday night. It turned Times Square dark and forced the cancellation of events planned at Broadway theaters, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and J-Lo’s concert at Madison Square Garden.

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