New York City blackout renews attention to CHNM project

September 1, 2003 News by Stephen Robertson

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.