NYC Revelers Make the Best of the Sandy Blackout (VIDEO)

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A man uses his phone while charging it with others from a wire from a home that did not lose power on October 31, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy which made landfall along the New Jersey shore, has left parts of the state and the surrounding area flooded and without power. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
A man uses his phone while charging it with others from a wire from a home that did not lose power on October 31, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy which made landfall along the New Jersey shore, has left parts of the state and the surrounding area flooded and without power. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Monday night, Hurricane Sandy pushed New York's East River to surge over its banks flooding the East Village almost as far as Avenue B. When transformers at Con Edison's 14th Street substation exploded, plunging the neighborhood into darkness, revelers spilled out of a bar, strangers stopped in the street, and broke into song led by an accordionist. The question I have is who walks around in a hurricane with an accordion? Only in New York.

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