I thought I’d better head out and see what the nabe was up to,” she said, speaking about Slide 10. “These women were neighbors near my home that I had never met. I remember thinking how amazing it was that it takes a disaster for everyone in a neighborhood to come together. Interestingly, the same thing happened on 9/11, when everyone spent the evening silently out in the street and on their stoops.

Andrea Mohin

New York Times photogs were all over the place capturing the city during the 2003 blackout.

[click for the photos, This is the city.]

also: readers of the The Morning News remember their experience
and Kottke’s post the next day