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Central Park Five
Crime in New York City
The Central Park Five describe their lives before April 20, 1989. New Yorkers talk about a city divided between the very rich and the very poor. In 1984 crack cocaine comes to the city and the crime rate soars.
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Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
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Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989