Lori and Gail are a pair of twins who were born during the 1977 blackout in New York City. Now, 45 years after FOX 5 NY interviewed their parents at the hospital, we speak to them again to look back on their place in New York City history.
"The ramp that I was supposed to get off on, the signs were dark, and I missed the ramp and I wound up in Chinatown, lost!" Alan Rosenberg said in 1977. "But I eventually found the FDR and once I found it, made it up here."
There was just a single emergency light in the delivery room, and in an even bigger shock, the Rosenbergs did not know they were having twins. "To have footage going back 45 years of the day, minutes after you were born. It's pretty wild!" Lori said.
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