Perps Know What Excites
New York’s Bargain-Hunters
There are many ways to move merchandise, but perhaps none works so well in this city of bargain-hunters as to pass it off as stolen. That’s what several cops discovered on Sept. 17.
The officers-Detective Steve Petrillo of the 19th Precinct’s community-affairs office, Captain James Murtaugh, Read More
Finest and Bravest Join Forces
In Pursuit of Fugitive Parrot
There’s something reassuring in knowing that with all the challenges the NYPD and the FDNY face these days, they still somehow find the time to pull family pets out of trees. The incident to which we’re referring started shortly before 9:30 p.m. on Sept. Read More
19th Precinct Pauses
In Remembrance of Sept. 11
At about 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, approximately 100 police officers from the 19th Precinct-members of both the departing overnight and the arriving daytime shifts-assembled outside their landmark East 67th Street station house to honor their 23 comrades who died at the World Trade Center last Read More
Grateful and Wary, East Siders Embrace Their Finest
The first thing you notice these solemn days when you walk into the 19th Precinct station house-a landmark building, though not one known for adornments-is the beautiful arrangement of flowers on the front desk. It wasn’t there the day before the disaster. And then a second Read More
