I remember it distinctly.
I was browsing through the video/DVD collection at the main branch of the NYPL when the lights went out.
In fact, it occurred only a few minutes after I had come up from the Bryant Park subway station.
Very, very hot.
The bathroom at the new Coliseum Books-which was just a block away from the library-was so crowded that they actually wound up closing it for repairs within the week.
LOL you are a fount of information. You need to play Jeopardy. BTW, we should meet again someday. I'm going to be in a 5k run with the Central Park jogger for charity. You should come.
You are right. It was August, and it was 2003.
(I looked it up.)
What cracked me up about that was Al-Q immediately taking responibility for it.