New York City (WABC) -- July 13, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the "Great New York Energy Crisis of 1977," when a 24-hour power outage made most of New York City go dark and caused a crime wave.

“New York, New York,” Broadway’s big-budgeted theatrical adaptation of the 1977 Martin Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli, will shutter on Broadway this weekend. A rep for the ...

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On July 13, 1977—40 years ago today—at approximately 9:36 p.m., New York City was plunged into darkness. Trains screeched to a halt, airports were shut down and baseball games were forced to postpone.

The Get Down, Baz Luhrman’s theatrical show about hip-hop culture and the 1970s Bronx, is a great mix of fact and fiction. Did Zeke actually exist? Well, no, but Ed Koch was actually running a ...

A significant power outage is being reported in parts of Manhattan tonight. • ConEdison estimates that over 42,000 New Yorkers are without power. • The New York Police Department and New York Fire ...

The musical will be directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman Tracey Harrington McCoy is a celebrity news writer at PEOPLE Digital. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

On the anniversary of the enormous blackout, another one sent parts of Manhattan into darkness. A blackout in 1977 left New York City without power for 25 hours. Switchboard operators at the ...

David Berkowitz terrorized New York in the mid-1970s with a spree of senseless violence that only became more frightening once he was caught, and explained his bizarre motivation. Prior to his capture ...