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  • The geography may have been turned on its side so that Isola was a sort of horizontal Manhattan, but the entire city itself was straight-up New York, though in the 87th Precinct's fifty novels he never called it anything but this city.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Ed Gorman 2008

  • The geography may have been turned on its side so that Isola was a sort of horizontal Manhattan, but the entire city itself was straight-up New York, though in the 87th Precinct's fifty novels he never called it anything but this city.

    Stephen Marlowe Ed Gorman 2008

  • "I was just hit with a chill, all these guys, 18 and 19," Soto says, gently rocking from side to side in the hallway of the 52nd Precinct's station house.

    'It Sucks Being On The Sidelines' 2007

  • It was four o'clock on Friday afternoon and they were in a booth in the back of the White Fox Lounge, on East Ninety-ninth and Madison, just north of the Nineteenth Precinct's jurisdiction.

    KILLING COUSINS ALEX MINTER 2003

  • It was four o'clock on Friday afternoon and they were in a booth in the back of the White Fox Lounge, on East Ninety-ninth and Madison, just north of the Nineteenth Precinct's jurisdiction.

    KILLING COUSINS ALEX MINTER 2003

  • It was four o'clock on Friday afternoon and they were in a booth in the back of the White Fox Lounge, on East Ninety-ninth and Madison, just north of the Nineteenth Precinct's jurisdiction.

    KILLING COUSINS ALEX MINTER 2003

  • Ralph's own gun, the .38 which he had toted dutifully through eighteen years as a police officer (and which he had only fired from the line of the 23rd Precinct's basement target range; he said he had drawn it twice in the line of duty ... but who knew?), was now a wreck in the corner.

    The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

  • By five P.M., the crowd in front of the Theresa Hotel had been quietly, carefully dispersed, and the Black Muslim Mosque Number 7 and its restaurant around the corner, at 116th Street and Lenox Avenue, had been ordered closed as a precautionary measure, on the orders of the local 28th Precinct's Captain Lloyd Sealy, New York City's first Negro to command a precinct.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • Erica Perez, 31, the secretary of the 75th Precinct's community council, suggested that East New Yorkers attend three monthly meetings to get to know their officers, of whom 150 are rookies, she said.

    NYT > Home Page By LIZ ROBBINS 2012

  • The war of words has prompted the Festival Centre to warn that unless the footbridge connected it, the Riverbank Precinct's future would be in jeopardy.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

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