| Across a Wire: Live in New York City | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Live album by | ||||
| Released | July 13, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | Chelsea Studios, New York City, August 12, 1997, and Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, November 6, 1997 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 121:54 | |||
| Label | Geffen | |||
| Producer | Sean Murphy and Mike Simon, Nancy McDonald | |||
| Counting Crows chronology | ||||
| ||||
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Entertainment Weekly | C+[2] |
| Rolling Stone |  [3] |
Across a Wire: Live in New York City (also known as Across a Wire: Live in New York for short) is the third album released by American rock band Counting Crows, released on July 14, 1998. It is a double-live album, featuring songs from their first two albums, August and Everything After (1993) and Recovering the Satellites (1996). Because the album contained two discs, the release was certified platinum by the RIAA for shipments of over 500,000 copies.
The first disc, recorded for VH1 Storytellers, is acoustic and intimate; it also contains a previously unreleased hidden track, "Chelsea". The second disc, recorded for MTV's Live from the 10 Spot show, is rocky and direct.
The cover art for the album, featuring electrical poles with the Statue of Liberty in the background, is taken from a 1967 photograph by David Plowden entitled "Statue of Liberty from Caven Point Road, Jersey City, New Jersey."