just because there was a blackout?? did that really happen?
shareYes. In was concentrated primarily in Bushwick Brooklyn, and the looting was followed by riots. Bushwick, a fairly large neighborhood, was burnt to the ground. I highly doubt it was just black people though, lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977
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i imagine a good portion of people will start looting during a blackout. Black or White, Muslim or Christian. Not all, but a good amount of folks especially if they are disadvantaged. Now the question is would they loot from places in their neighborhood or would they go maybe 5 or 6 blocks and do it
shareyes unfortunately it did happen. it was pretty much ALL neighborhoods but mainly, Brooklyn and Harlem; but you have to remember the demographics of that time, those neighborhoods were predominantly poor (nothing like what you see now) and all of NY was already in crisis with being almost on the verge of bankruptcy, gas shortage, etc...
those were really tough times back then, i can imagine how crazy it must appear to those who didn't get to see in the lifetime :(
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The Bronx was once solidly Jewish. Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Bess Myerson grew up there. Thanks to Robert Moses, a thriving, working-class Jewish neighborhood was replaced by the expressway.
Lincoln Center displaced a Puerto Rican neighborhood. Yes, where West Side Story took place. Many moved to a Bronx that had much fewer amenities by then.
If there was a blackout in say 1937 would there have been looting (in the middle of the Depression)? Highly doubtful.
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And amazingly, people of color existed then, too!
shareLooting was actually fairly common during The Great Depression. Desperate times and desperate measures and such.
And if a city is large enough with enough desperate people then... yeah, it's naive to think there aren't going to some bad things that are going to happen. Any time you have a large enough sample size, ya know?
Here's just one link about NYC during the Great Depression:
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/brooks12/then-protests/
Unemployment led to poverty and hunger. Cases of mob looting became common. For instance, groups of men often raided chain stores, but the stores refused to alert the authorities to avoid media attentions. On March 20th, 1930, “1,100 men waiting on a Salvation Army bread line in New York City mobbed two trucks delivering baked goods to a nearby hotel”