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On the night of July 13, 1977, a lightning strike took out a power station, which set off a chain reaction leading to a blackout in New York City.

By the time the sun came up the next morning, New York began to take stock — 3,400 arrests, 1,000 fires and hundreds of stores looted in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Check out photos below of the night the city went dark.