City, ferry crash survivors fight over photos

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City, ferry crash survivors fight over photos

 

The city and survivors of the fatal October 2003 Staten Island ferry crash are battling over how to handle graphic crime photographs taken by the New York Police Department immediately after the wreck, which took 11 lives.

 

Both sides say that about 50 of the pictures are so "graphic and sensitive" that they want to prevent access by the news media and public, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.

 

Full story: amNY - November 19, 2007