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19901990s NEWS
1990's New York City News Events including heroic acts, arrests, fire. robbery, murder, accidents.

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Handwritten sign on glass shop door "Use Yard Entrance". Ext. home center storefront, "Lumber Headquarters". Red crime scene tape can be seen in the parking lot.
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NYC Police station wagon parked in front of home store. Traffic and peds go by.
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Z'in on Lumber Headquarters sign shaped like a house. Orange storefront with many signs posted such as Kitchen Bath, Lumber, Contractors Welcome, etc.
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Cops at glass doors, sign with graffiti all over it reads: Showroom Entrance thru Yard
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Police officer ties crime scene tape to hood of parked police car. More shots of front of the home improvement center building.
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Color photo still: Black man poses kneeling with his little boy and puppy. Police sirens are heard going off.
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Brick duplex with white iron fence and red awnings over the doors. Maybe Queens or Brooklyn. CU on fancy front door with address, 931. z'out from address to ws of duplex, a person walks by crrys a shopping bag.
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A parked "Brooklyn Mortuary Division" van -police carry a stretcher with a dead body wrapped in dark cloth to the waiting van.
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Nighttime. NYC police car parked on street. Z'in on building address numbers 653. Pan out from address to WS front of Dorothy's Beauty Salon. Brick building, car parked out front. Police officers are seen on the street. Pan up brick (apt.) building.
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CU police car with the numbers 48 PCT 1386. NYC Police. Another vehicle reads 5152 CSU.
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Street signs. One Way sign beneath E 182 St - Belmont Av
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Nighttime. Crime scene. dark footage. a dead body lies face down on the ground, there's crime scene tape, an orange traffic cone, police and a cameraman at the scene.
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NYC police emergency trucks parked. Street signs: Walton Av - E 172 st. Below street signs are two One Way signs.
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Dead body wrapped in white sheet on the ground, crime scene tape surrounds the area. Sirens are heard.
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Z'out from dead body to WS of the area. A stop sign on the corner, pan left to fire escape with a big sign (unreadable) attached to it.
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Billowing gray smoke in the night sky blow out of the top of a high rise. About 7 firemen on the ground in the night - all that is seen is the white reflective stripes on their uniforms.
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Shadows of figures move around in a gray smokey room as seen looking through two windows
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Flames from a building fire seen in the night.
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Tilt down on firefighters and firetrucks on the street below.
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Fireman on a fire escape, climbs up toward the smoke.
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Heroic firemen on fire escape attempt to enter smoking building through windows.
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Dark footage of bright orange flames and gray smoke from blazing building fire.
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Tilt down on firemen on the ground tending to a downed firefighter. Fire hoses spread out on the ground.
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Good shot of apartment building - the top ablaze in the night.
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Injured firefighter is wheeled away on a stretcher to waiting ambulance and placed inside.
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Street signs amidst the smoke Bryant Av - E 181 st
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Dozens of F.D.N.Y firemen surround a smashed overturned New York fire truck, a rescue effort underway to remove trapped victim, a fireman, from the vehicle.
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Shots of the intense rescue operation as the body is removed from the vehicle on a stretcher and carried to waiting ambulance. A joint team effort and heroic act.
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Ws of the front of the smashed in firetruck with a wreath attached to it. Rocks and debris cover the ground. CU on the Christmas wreath.
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Var shots of the completely demolished fire engine.
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Smashed white car
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A fire department official with a big handlebar mustache speaks to the press at the scene. He explains that Company 107 was involved in an automobile accident with a civilian car. The truck lost control and smashed into a building, six firefighters were injured in the crash and taken to local hospitals. One civilian was taken to a hospital as well.
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Street Signs: Linden Blvd - Ashford St. Paritally seen one way sign beneath street signs.
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CU firefighters fight a house fire from ladder bucket. One firefighter is seen on the roof as flames shoot out around him. z'out from fire ladder to ws of the building on fire.
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Z'in on the firemen. Various shots of the men fighting the fire. flames come out of the flat roof of the two to three floor apartment or row house building. Many onlookers below on the street watch the firemen at work.
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A Fire Department Chief explains to reporter unseen about the fire which has occurred on the top floor of corner building above the ceiling and then spread laterally to three buildings.
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CU injured fireman breaths through oxygen mask and is tended to by EMS workers.
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Police officer directs people and traffic on a highway near an accident or crime scene. He asks people to keep back so as to keep the scene safe. Police cars and Emergency vehicles are seen in bkgd and onlookers.
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CU at the scene reveals a Black male victim lying on the ground. A white car is crashed into a metal highway fence, guardrail. Z'in reveals police car involved in crash
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Victim on ground is placed on stretcher and moved to waiting gurney. CU on Black male victim's face, appeariing to be unconscious. He is placed into waiting ambulance.
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Police officers in a field of overgrown golden or dried out weeds. One officer chops away at the weeks with a stick as if to make a clearing
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Several police vehicles are seen parked along the road by the field
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Nighttime, several police vehicles parked along a city street, many onlookers. Residential building with awning, address numbers 1800 on awning. A man wearing an orange jacket with the words NYC Special Operations escorts a woman to an ambulance. The woman's face is seen through the ambulance window with her hand over her mouth and a look of fear and distraught on her face.
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Police vehicles line the streets parked at the scene
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Shots of the 1800 building high rise apartments. An officer gives a statement to an unseen reporter and states there were two elderly people found dead on the fifth floor, police department is investigating, and a mother and small child were taken to a hospital for treatment, the child for psychological problems.
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Sign on building Coop for Sale.
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Street signs: Kings Hwy - Ocean Pkwy
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Police officers exit glass doors of building carrying shopping bags, most likely evidence. Mortuary truck is seen parked by building. Two dead bodies are carried out separately on stretchers and into the waiting truck.
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Nighttime crime scene city street packed with police cars and emergency police vehicles, ambulances, "police taru van", etc.
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An unknown male Deputy Commissioner speaks with unseen reporters about the scene of the crime. He states there was a male in an argument with a female, he confronted officers with a weapon, and has taken hostages. He states they continue to talk with the perpetrator, and have traded things like food for hostages.
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Policemen wave away onlookers and photographers to pave the way through and carry a bandaged male victim on a stretcher into a waiting ambulance.
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Victim can be seen being tended to through a window of the ambulance. Footage is jumpy and dark
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The Deputy Commissioner from earlier introduces to reporters, the Housing Chief, Charles ? and Hughey McGowan, Hostage Team CEO and Emergency Services Inspector, Harkins. Harkins explains how the hostage scene ended in gun shots and how they had to break into a bathroom and dis-arm the suspect. They explain how it was difficult to determine what set the suspect off.
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CU patch on police jacket "Hostage Negotiation Team" with a NYPD gold badge.
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