New Collection: New York Metro Area Crime 2004 – 2014

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The Citiwide News Collection is a decade of dramatic, expertly shot, first-on-the-scene crime and breaking news footage.

The footage was shot by former police and fire department dispatchers who got to the scene before any other journalist because they understood what first responders were saying over the radio—and understood the significance of what they were deliberately leaving out.

They captured crime, fires, accidents, emergencies, protests, spontaneous celebrations and spectacles like circus elephants parading through the city, recorded mostly at night across the New York City metropolitan area between 2004 and 2014.

This collection includes raw footage, not just edited clips, and covers a wide range of generic-looking shots such as bullet casings, plain-clothes detectives looking for evidence, raging fires, and the aftermath of high-speed car crashes. These are shots that can illustrate stories anywhere, not just in the New York metro area.



The Citiwide News Collection expands our collection of New York City crime and breaking news footage, together spanning four decades of the New York City metro area's history.

The Citiwide collection has been in storage for over a decade and has never before been made available for licensing. We can conduct precise visual searches of the collection as we continue to log the footage. Send us your request and we'll be happy to search the collection for you.