40 Years Ago: A Look Back At 1977

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Looters, young and old, leave an A&P supermarket at Ogden Avenue and 166th Street in the Bronx through a broken window as they carry off their stolen wares. Authorities arrested thousands of looters, in at least three boroughs of the city, as the looters took advantage of the city’s massive blackout in July of 1977.

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