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Photos: This is how Times Square looked with the lights off last night

New York City looked very different with the lights out.

LAST NIGHT WAS the seventh annual Earth Hour, which encourages people to switch off their lights for an hour in a bid to focus on energy conservation.

Landmarks around the world – including Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, and Dubai’s Burj Khalifa – turned off their lights between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.

Times Square in New York City was one of the places that switched off its lights for the hour, creating an eerie contrast to the usual bustle and bright lights from the many bright billboards and advertising hoardings in the area.

Press Association photographers David Goldman and Seth Wenig went into Times Square during Earth Hour and caught these rare photos of how it looked with the lights off.

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(All pics: AP Photo/Seth Wenig/David Goldman)

Over to you in the comments: Did you observe Earth Hour last night? Or did you even know it was happening?

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    Mar 30th 2014, 6:09 PM

    Never knew it was last night. Must have been kept totally in the dark

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    Mar 30th 2014, 6:13 PM

    Next year they should try and tell people before the actual event ..

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    Mar 30th 2014, 6:07 PM

    Hadn’t a clue this was happening.

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    Mar 30th 2014, 6:39 PM

    Glad to see I wasn’t the only one who had no clue this was happening.

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    Mar 30th 2014, 7:09 PM

    Surely this is the work of the De-luminatti?

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    Mute Dave Harris
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    Mar 30th 2014, 11:03 PM

    goodnight John-boy……

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    Mar 30th 2014, 6:45 PM

    There was a big deal made about it for its first year, happened to be in Galway for it and a lot of pubs went along with it, really hadn’t a clue it was on last night, as well as last years.

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    Mute Alan O'connor
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    Mar 30th 2014, 6:04 PM

    No idea it was on. And no interest either.

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    Mute Brian Murphy
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    Mar 30th 2014, 8:46 PM

    I musta blacked out!!

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    Mute Mark Tobin
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    Mar 30th 2014, 6:20 PM

    The illuminati strike again…

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    Mute Lad
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    Mar 30th 2014, 6:38 PM

    Fair play to the illuminati then

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    Mute Liam Connors
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    Mar 30th 2014, 11:38 PM

    What is this all about. I really don’t understand. Anyone care to shed some light on it for me?

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    Mute Colm Healy
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    Mar 30th 2014, 11:16 PM

    They obviously didn’t turn all of the lights off for whatever reason

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    Mar 30th 2014, 11:21 PM

    I take part in in every year it’s amazing how fast the word spread over fb and twitter it was trending also! It’s such a simple yet so powerful experience to ba a part of. You should also check out 24 hours of climate reality, al gore runs it and it goes around the globe discussing climate change , the impact it’s having on different countries around the world and ways of combatting it and what you can do to help :-)

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