Thursday, June 23, 2011

The Worst Summers in the History of New York: A Brief History

Posted by Jonny Diamond on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:27 AM

In honor of the "official" start of summer yesterday, I thought I'd pour some cold water on our irrationally exuberant expectations of THE BEST SUMMER EVER. Because seriously, there have been a lot of shitty summers in the history of this city.


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The Worst New York Summers of All Time: A Brief History
Summer of 1626, Gentrification All But Over Summer of 1643, The Indian Wars The Summer of 1803, Yellow Fever Everywhere! The Summer of 1835, The Nativist Wars of Five Points The Summer of 1863, Draft Riots The Summer of 1904, Little Germany Basically Wiped Out The Summer of 1958, No Dodgers in Brooklyn The Summer 1968, Race Riots, Garbage Strikes...

The Worst New York Summers of All Time: A Brief History

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Nothing about the 2006 Queens blackout that lasted a week and resulted in exploding manholes (and cars), power lines on fire, and millions of bucks in business losses? That blew.

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Posted by gptgal on 06/23/2011 at 11:27 AM

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Hey, let's unofficially add that to the list. It did suck.

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Posted by Jonny Diamond on 06/23/2011 at 6:45 PM
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