InstaPundit has noticed blogger John Daley, who spent Thursday night sleeping in Bryant Park, and who did some incredible real-time blogging and photo-blogging during the blackout, the results of which can be seen here, here, here, and here. (I love the end of his “Escape from New York” post, recounting his drive home to Boston: “On [Interstate] 95 I saw three New York city taxis, one as far north as Providence. I couldn’t see what the fare read.” Ha!)

My blackout photojournalism isn’t quite as impressive or as timely as his, but I think I do have quite a few interesting photos, and they’re all now online. I’ve posted 81 pics in my Blackout of 2003 gallery. The thumbnails are right here in this blog post; all you have to do is click below where it says “Read the rest of this post,” then start scrollin’, scrollin’, scrollin’. :)

First, though, here’s a list I’ve compiled of my Blackout of 2003 audio blog posts: 5:09 PM (initial update from 13th floor office in Tribeca), 6:12 PM (walking around outside, trying to get food), 6:14 PM (speculating whether this is terrorism), 6:19 PM (listening to blackout tips on the radio), 7:02 PM (shopping at a dark but still-open grocery store offering free milk, salad) 8:02 PM (talking about how I’ve always wanted to witness a New York blackout, and how cool it will be to see the skyline dark and see stars in the sky), 8:10 PM (walking through Greenwich Village, describing a “city-wide block party”), 8:49 PM (describing Penn Station, Times Square in the dark), 12:25 AM (recalling the scene on the bus, reporting that I made it home safe). Check ‘em out!

Okay… time for those photos!

(UPDATE: Thanks for the link, InstaPundit! Welcome, new visitors to BrendanLoy.com! Be sure to visit my homepage, my noteworthy posts, and/or my Blackout of 2003 category! If you wish, you can also can read my full blackout story and/or view a map of my blackout-induced travels. But enough about me. I want to know: Where were you when the lights went out?)

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8/14/03, 4:34 PM
About 20 minutes after the lights went out, traffic on Sixth Avenue was already beginning to back up, as seen from my 13th-floor office in Tribeca.

8/14/03, 4:35 PM
Three of my co-workers — Scott, Mischa, and Sara — gather around the window looking out on the street below.

8/14/03, 4:39 PM
Pedestrians, cars, and buses jam up Sixth Avenue.

8/14/03, 4:54 PM
A guy sits on the back of a truck, while other pedestrians cross the street. Looks like the guy in the suit is looking at his watch! Yeah, buddy, you’re definitely going to get home late…

8/14/03, 4:55 PM
With the subways closed, people look for a taxi ride home.

8/14/03, 4:55 PM
The stoplights, of course, weren’t working.

8/14/03, 5:03 PM
My bosses, Richard and Lyn, and my co-workers gather in the living room, some trying (unsuccessfully) to call out on their cell phones. The cellular networks were jammed, because many, many others had the same idea at the same time.

8/14/03, 5:03 PM
Sara and Will marvel at the chaos visible outside the window, while everybody else sits and waits.

8/14/03, 5:10 PM
Given the 9/11 fears stoked by the blackout, it was a relief to see the Empire State Buliding and Chrysler Building still standing tall.

8/14/03, 5:19 PM
The sidewalks just kept getting more and more crowded, while traffic was pretty much at a stand-still.

8/14/03, 5:31 PM
Check out the glut of buses trying to reach the Holland Tunnel! It got so bad that cars couldn’t even get through, so part of the street looked almost empty.

8/14/03, 5:33 PM
“Don’t block the box”? Ha! Chaos reigns at the intersection of Sixth Avenue, West Broadway, and Lispenard Street.

8/14/03, 5:37 PM
Looking south down Church Street from the roof, check out the bus jam — and the tourists in the double-decker bus! What a day for a tour!

8/14/03, 5:39 PM
Another scene along Church Street where “Don’t block the box” was utterly laughable.

8/14/03, 5:39 PM
A helicopter flies overhead, checking out the chaotic scene below.

8/14/03, 5:39 PM
My co-workers Scott, Mischa, Will, and Sara talk things over on the roof. The question on everyone’s mind: could this be a terrorist attack?

8/14/03, 5:44 PM
Yet more chaotic traffic scenes along Canal Street.

8/14/03, 5:44 PM
The Holland Tunnel bus jam extended all the way south almost to Ground Zero.

8/14/03, 6:03 PM
Richard and Lyn’s dogs seem unfazed by the power outage.

8/14/03, 6:08 PM
Lyn greets her two daughters at the front door of the building. She walked down the 13 flights of stairs planning to get food with us, not knowing her kids had just arrived home from camp and would be waiting for her at the bottom. When we saw them there, I commented to one of my co-workers, “A mother always knows. She may not know she knows, but she knows.”

8/14/03, 6:09 PM
Pedestrians walk at the corner of Franklin and Leonard streets.

8/14/03, 6:13 PM
By shortly after 6:00 PM, Broadway had become a veritable pedestrian mecca.

8/14/03, 6:14 PM
A darkened but still-open grocery store lets patrons in.

8/14/03, 6:14 PM
Will, Mischa, and Scott walk up Broadway, amid a sea of fellow pedestrians.

8/14/03, 6:21 PM
I walked up these 13 flights of stairs once, and down them twice!

8/14/03, 6:46 PM
The guy sitting in this Con Edison van didn’t seem to have too big of a role in the restoration of power. He was just sort of chillin’.

8/14/03, 6:47 PM
This man was grilling food on the concrete porch in front of his apartment building. “I do this once every 25 years!” he said.

8/14/03, 6:51 PM
A grocery store in western Tribeca announces that it’s still open.

8/14/03, 6:51 PM
Presumably this sign meant to say “All raw meat ten dollars a piece,” not “All row meat ten o’clock a peace.” But people got the idea.

8/14/03, 6:52 PM
A grocery store sells food by candlelight in Tribeca.

8/14/03, 6:52 PM
Another picture of selling food by candlelight in Tribeca.

8/14/03, 6:53 PM
Yet more selling food by candlelight in Tribeca.

8/14/03, 6:53 PM
Patrons line up to pay for their food.

8/14/03, 6:55 PM
Scott checks out the milk, which was being given away for free.

8/14/03, 6:56 PM
This man took soymilk because he figured it would keep longer.

8/14/03, 7:04 PM
Will drinks from one of the three free milk cartons we got at the store, while Scott makes a face at me.

8/14/03, 7:08 PM
There was an insanely long line for a boat to New Jersey.

8/14/03, 7:08 PM
A power boat speeds by as hundreds, maybe thousands, wait for a boat to New Jersey.

8/14/03, 7:17 PM
Will and Scott sit by the waterfront, people-watching and discussing the blackout.

8/14/03, 5:18 PM
People walk down toward the southern tip of Manhattan, part of a mass exodus on foot.

8/14/03, 5:19 PM
Two helicopters and two seagulls fly over the Hudson River.

8/14/03, 5:25 PM
Sunset over a darkened Newark, New Jersey.

8/14/03, 5:39 PM
The gas stations were all closed; at this one, the pumps were blocked off with red tape.

8/14/03, 7:18 PM
Greenwich Village soon became a huge street party, with hundreds gathered at every open bar.

8/14/03, 8:02 PM
Three New Yorkers look at the crowded scene at a bar across the street.

8/14/03, 8:11 PM
Moments before I took the picture, this guy was feeding his dog bottled water.

8/14/03, 8:21 PM
These folks were giving away free milk from their shopping carts.

8/14/03, 8:25 PM
The Empire State Building is eerily dark as night falls.

8/14/03, 8:28 PM
People stand in line at a generator-powered ice cream stand, with a darkened Madison Square Garden in the background.

8/14/03, 8:29 PM
With cell phone networks overloaded, dozens of people waited in line to use pay phones.

8/14/03, 8:29 PM
An immense crowd, literally thousands, could be seen milling about near Penn Station. They had nowhere else to go!

8/14/03, 8:36 PM
A firetruck along Seventh Avenue.

8/14/03, 8:36 PM
Firefighters help maintain order along Seventh Avenue.

8/14/03, 8:39 PM
Another grocery store still open during the blackout (illuminated in this case by my camera’s flash).

8/14/03, 8:41 PM
Dozens of people with nowhere else to go sat inside this generator-powered building’s well-lit and perhaps air-conditioned lobby.

8/14/03, 8:42 PM
Another picture of people waiting in line for pay phones.

8/14/03, 8:43 PM
Dozens of pedestrians, standing behind red police flares, wait for an officer’s signal to cross the street in Times Square.

8/14/03, 8:55 PM
Times Square, including the Jumbotron, in darkness! Now there’s something you don’t see every day.

8/14/03, 9:05 PM
Another view of the darkened heart of Times Square. The building at right had a generator, obviously.

8/14/03, 9:07 PM
Like moths, people gathered wherever there was light, as seen here in Times Square.

8/14/03, 9:07 PM
Tons of revelers came to Times Square, as I did, just to see what it looked like with the lights out. Some described the atmosphere as almost New Year’s Eve-like.

8/14/03, 9:07 PM
This guy was taking in the scene with his camcorder, making me wish I had mine.

8/14/03, 9:16 PM
There were tons of people in Times Square — and tons of cops, too, maintaining order.

8/14/03, 9:24 PM
Folks wait in line for food and/or drink at one of the few restaurants remaining open after 9:00 PM.

8/14/03, 10:03 PM
This picture doesn’t even begin to give you an idea of how crowded this bus was. At one point, I was one of three people riding in the stairwell, leaning against the door.

8/15/03, 12:42 AM
The view from the roof of my 190th Street apartment, looking east toward the Bronx.

8/15/03, 12:43 AM
One car’s headlights and a few generator-powered buildings are the only sources of light looking east from 190th Street.

8/15/03, 12:45 AM
This American flag, on a generator-lighted rooftop, stood out like a beacon amid the blackout.

8/15/03, 12:48 AM
Generator-powered apartment buildings in the Bronx.

8/15/03, 12:49 AM
The moon and Mars shine over the darkened city.

8/15/03, 12:50 AM
Another view of the moon and Mars over the city, looking a bit more southward.

8/15/03, 10:29 AM
In the morning, there was no New York Sun on my doorstep. It never came.

8/15/03, 10:32 AM
When I ventured outside, the stoplights were back on in Washington Heights! Power was restored at 8:20 AM.

8/15/03, 11:02 AM
Frank’s Market on 187th Street was rather short on some goods, having thrown some stuff out and sold others at discount prices the previous night.

8/15/03, 11:10 AM
A sure sign of life returning to normal: cars double-parked along Fort Washington Avenue, waiting for spots, as always.

8/15/03, 11:10 AM
None of the three major daily papers made it to their boxes on 190th Street Friday. These are still Thursday’s papers.

8/15/03, 11:15 AM
My microwave’s clock was a little, um, confused by the outage. I later unplugged it, following the mayor’s orders to conserve power.

8/15/03, 3:14 PM
Despite frequent and fervent government pleas not to do so, somebody obviously opened this fire hydrant.

8/15/03, 3:55 PM
Three of the day’s newspapers: I had to walk a couple of dozen blocks to get them, but I got them.