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19901990s NEWS
1990'S NEW YORK CITY NEWS EVENTS INCLUDING FIRES, NYC MAYOR DAVID DINKINS, ROBBERY, HEROIC ACTS, BOPMB SQUAD

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Several shots of a nighttime fire, sirens, flames. Pan out and it appears to be a fire on the rooftop balcony of an apartment building. Darkness, nighttime. Pan in on the flames that shoot up into the night sky. The sound of fire engine sirens is heard.
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Fire fighters in full gear at the scene inside the building's fancy lobby. CU A large bronze dedication plaque on the wall (illegible). Pan across from the plaque to the elaborate entrance of the building with fancy iron work above the doors and marble archways.
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FDNY truck parked. Pan up to top of building, dark footage, clouds of gray smoke come from the building. Rescue Co. 3 truck
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Residents of the building gather in the lobby. An older woman rests in a chair, two small children wearing their pajamas sit on the sofa, a girl with her dog, police officers and firemen are seen.
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"Ansonia" sign written in script and address on the awning 2109 Broadway. FDNY at the scene outside.
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A New York Police officer stands outside a door to an apartment. The door is has holiday decorations on it. CU the number "5" on the door.
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Cutaway to LS nighttime, twinkling Christmas lights are seen in an upper floor window of an apartment building. Pan down the building to a parked NYPD car with 23 PCT (on door). Pan from the window with lights down to the police car.
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CU 23 PCT police car parked, pan right to piles of garbage bags leaning against a street pole, graffiti on apartment building bottom floor.
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New York Fire Department firefighters outside a restaurant, their hoses spread out on the ground. CU on an injured fireman who sits all sweaty and can't catch a breath and coughs. Dozens of firemen on the scene outside the Red Apple grocery store or restaurant.
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People board a city bus, a young man takes photos as he boards. . Big green advertisement across side of bus for Irish Echo "Don't Just say You're Irish, Prove it".
Inside the bus - New York City Mayor, David Dinkins, is seen on the bus and talks with passengers
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Surrounded by security and press, Mayor Dinkins gets off bus and is seen in a crowd of people, he talks with and kisses the head of a little Black girl then walks down the street where lots of people are gathered. He attempts to enter 124 Park Avenue then keeps walking and winds up at the scene of an active fire. He talks with and shakes the hand of a firefighter. Many firefighters are at the scene.
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Street signs Park Av - E 96 St. Z'out from street sign to the Red Apple grocery store.
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Several people, police officers and several officials enter an ambulance only entrance to a Bellevue Hospital. Security guards stand outside. Several cars pull up to the scene.
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A Black man dressed in suit and tie talks with unseen interviewer about an occurence. He states an off-duty police officer witnessed a robbery in progress at an ATM on 57th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan. The officer was shot twice while running after the perpertrators and was brought to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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Ext. neon Emergency sign at Bellevue Medical Center. Crime scene tape at entrance and many police officers are seen gathered inside the lobby and outside.
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CU NYPD car parked 'MN PCT"
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Automatic Teller machines outside the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building at 8th Avenue and 57th Street. Z'in and out.
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Street signs 8 Av - W 57 St
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Several emergency vehicles, ambulances, head off a highway and round a corner led by a NYPD motorcycle officer.
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Several emergency workers outside the back of an ambulance help as an injured person is wheeled out on a gurney all bandaged up and with oxygen.
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NYPD officers and NYC EMS vehicles outside the entrance to Bellevue Medical Center.
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Sign on residential building - 253 \ Private Entrance
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A women with a bandage wrapped around her head including across her eyes is escorted by police past the Myrna Unisex Hair Stylist building. Blood drips down her face as she is led by Paramedics into a waiting ambulance.
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WS from across street of ext Myrna's and the 253 residential building. 19 PCT police car parked outside the building.
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CU Lenox Hill Hospital paramedic van drives away followed down the street by the police car.
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Pan out from New York City Police Bomb Squad truck parked with door open in middle of wide street, a 23 PCT police car blocks the road. Looks like a nursing home or assisted living facility - an old woman peeks out from her window. Several police cars and bomb squad cars parked.
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Ext. nursing home or assisted living facility - a woman in a wheelchair out front and an old woman peeks out from her window. Several police cars and bomb squad cars parked near the property. WS of the nursing home.
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A man from bomb squad dressed in hazmat suit outside talks with another man. An electronic bomb detector rolls into the street - nurses watch from the window.
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Z'out from front entrance of the nursing home reveals the multi story building.
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Several police officers gathered in middle of street. A chaotic scene of the evacuation of a building with mostly African American teens, maybe a high school. The teens are seen as they walk out of the building past the police barricades. Several injured victims, mostly Black, are wheeled on stretchers by EMTs to waiting emergency vehicles,
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A police official enters building, streets are littered with paper, an onlooker take photos
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CU of a young Black girl wearing gold hoop earring and jeans, her head all the way back, eyes closed, being wheeled o a streetcher across street. Many people at the scene, chaos.
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A police officer talks with unseen interviewer about the crime scene. He states there are still people inside the building, the injured are being taken to the area hospitals, Presbyterian and Harlem Hospitals. He states there were to many people at the entrance to the building and there was a crowd crush and push where the people were injured.
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A line of mostly African American young adults led by a police officer exit the building (same as above story). Glass doors are shattered, people on stretchers taken away, cameraman takes photos, officials enter the building.
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CU yellow ticket to event. "Heavy B. & Puff Daddy" "Tonight"
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CU an emergency technician wearing a helmet talks with unseen interviewer about what occured. He states the event was a Rap concert and indoor charity basketball game, and it precipitated a mad crush of the crowd. He talks about the many injured victims.
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CU pamphlet on the ground from the show reads, "The 1st Annual Heavy D & Puff Daddy Celebrity Charity Basketball Game
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Mayor David Dinkins arrives at the scene and talks with media briefly then states he wants to go inside and heads in. He later talks to press about the tragic crowd crush at a party and basketball game sponsored by the student government that took the lives of 8 people, 21 injured plus 5 EMS personnel.
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