After Hurricane Sandy made landfall in October 2012, I became one of the residents of Manhattan’s newest neighborhood: SoPo, the wonderfully NYC-esque portmanteau for South of Power. The dividing line was 39th Street, and everyone south of that on the island was without electricity for several days. I stuck it out for a day or two, and I can still remember going to bed super early (I think it was 8 or 9 o'clock at night), because once the sun has gone down, there really isn’t much to do when you have no power, no Internet and no cell service. This month, a new film about the power outage called "3rd Street Blackout" is set to begin production in New York. Helmed by first-time directors Negin Farsad and Jeremy Redleaf, the film focuses on a tech-obsessed couple who find themselves suddenly—one might even say forcibly—unplugged after Sandy. "We really...
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