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Downtown After Sandy: Walking 3 miles in blacked-out NYC, the night after the storm

Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia, who collaborates with us on the Boing Boing Virgin America in-flight TV channel and is a talented director—and a resident of New York’s Little Italy neighborhood!—shot and edited this amazing video.

“Walking 3 miles from Mulberry Street to Grand Central on the night after Hurricane Sandy,” Joe explains. “Everything south of 38th street was dark.”

Observations:

1) People used pay phones.

2) Lone cops would stand on corners keeping an eye out on things.

3) A few bars would have candle-lit drinking hours. Which reminded me of NYC in the 1700s, if I was alive then

I just watched Amadeus yesterday. That’s why Mozart is scoring this video.

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