New Year's 1981 opens with NYC murder wave after historically bloody 1980

This is original Eyewitness News coverage from Jan. 1, 1981, beginning with a report on New York City's out-of-control murder crisis, followed by a report on the cleanup in Times Square, where new police tactics kept revelers safe from roving street gangs.

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