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Tom Clancy's The Division: New York Collapse

Alex Irvine's licensed Division companion frames post-Black Friday New York through an in-universe urban-survival guide and a survivor's annotations, establishing April Kelleher's story before Broken Dawn.

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An in-universe survival guide

New York Collapse is official Division transmedia, but it is neither a game mission nor a real-world emergency manual. Ubisoft presents it as a fictional urban-survival field-guide format rooted in the post-Black Friday New York setting. [1]

April Kelleher's starting point

The guide's annotated survivor frame makes it a useful source-specific entry point for April Kelleher. Ubisoft's later Broken Dawn material explicitly carries her story forward, while this archive retains only high-level, independently written continuity context rather than reproducing book pages, annotations or artifacts. [1][2]

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  1. confirmed

    Ubisoft announced New York Collapse as Alex Irvine's official Division companion: an urban-survival field guide set against post-Black Friday New York City. [1]

  2. confirmed

    Its official published framing combines a pre-collapse guide with handwritten notes and accounts from a lone survivor investigating the collapse. [1]

  3. confirmed

    Ubisoft later identifies April Kelleher as New York Collapse's protagonist and describes Broken Dawn as continuing her story into the period before The Division 2. [2]

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  1. [1] The Division: New York Collapse Announced — Ubisoft News (2015-08-27). Accessed 2026-07-28.
  2. [2] The Division: Broken Dawn Novel Explores Effects of Global Collapse — Ubisoft News (2019-03-26). Accessed 2026-07-28.