Dr. Zuki

Are you sure it was the fire band, and not the cops?

The cops assigned to filming this week and last on "Freedomland" are calling themselves the movie detail on YPD channel 3. Filming for 15 days in the AshburtonAve-St. Joseph's Avenue area at night.

Unless maybe somebody from YFD is assigned to this movie or another one where they are required due to pyrotechnics being involved. Anybody know please???

Steve,

See imdb.com for a detailed story synopsis.

Was visitng the Yonkers Racetrack fleamarket yesterday and noticed former YFD tower ladder 71 with some other vehicles waiting to be auctioned in June. It's located on Yonkers Avenue entrance on the east side of the parking lot as you drive in.

Noticed a few radio cars with a black, round, gps device on the trunk. Guessing they are experimenting with GPS systems to monitor radio cars on patrol.

OOPS! It should be Yonkers General Hospital for the filming, not St. Joe's

Good Luck is right !!!

Hopefully the filmmakers were wise enough to hire enough Yonkers cops for the upcoming race riot scene. The city charges $68.00 for it's rent a cop program. But as an act of good faith, filmmakers usually hire a few locals whenever they shoot in high crime, inner city neighborhoods like Ashburton.

Am guessing they may use St. Joesph's Hospital for Julianne Moore's scene seeking treatment for her carjacking near the "Armstrong Projects."

YPD: Stay Safe on set !!!

They were filming yesterday at Red Fox Diner in Elmsford on Route 9A then moved to Ashburton Avenue in Yonkers last night near St. Joseph's Hospital and the side streets leading to Mulford Gardens projects. Are returning there all of next week.

Great idea but big money developers will get this concept defeated. Everytime there is a tragedy in NYC, they talk about upgrading the fire codes and never follow through like the time the firefighters died in that Queens hardware warehouse and remember all the talk after Sept 11 about making building owner's pay for repeaters? It all fades into the wind, big money always seems to get it's way unfortunately....

I didn't hear anything else about the Yonkers filming. Go to imdb.com and enter the film title for story information and cast listing...

901,

Thanks for the great photos. They may also film at the church on the corner of Elm Street and Walnut which was also used in "The Preacher's Wife" several years back. Tell me if you hear about any other Yonkers locations, I work as a backround extra.

Scorcese's "The Departed" is also using the Tuckahoe Road stages.

They are using the Yonkers Strages at 291 Tuckahoe Road, opposite Shop Rite. Bunch of prop New Jersey cop cars parked there if you want photos.

Tonight until about 10PM, the feature film "Freedomland" is filming at New Rochelle Fire HQ. A prop New Jersey marked Impala cop car is parked outside. Unknown if stars Julianne Moore and Samuel L. Jackson will be there today.

FYI: The exisitng Staion 10 on Tuckahoe Road is I believe, landmarked, so if closed it cannot be demolished. This would make for a better YFD Museum than the Warburton Avenue location. Though the parking is lousy.

P.S.--The Draft DEIS appears on cityofyonkers.com in the Doing business in Yonkers section. The fire and police section is III, Page K-13. Very, very interesting manpower and staffing stuff discussed.

Somebody please cut and paste.

Don't miss.

Two councilmembers speaking last night at a community meeting said the soon to be released Final Environmental Impact Studay for the Ridge Hill development will contain a new engine company staffed by 25 firefighters and an additional one man poilce car will be added to the First precinct which encompasses Ridge Hill. Unknown whether or not another patrol sector will be added or the exisitng fourwithinthe precinct will be realligned. Maybe Truck 4 knows the answer ???? The City Council will soon vote to accept the F.E.I.S. which does not mean the project has been approved.

What's the sense to both Pelhams having separate poilce commissioners for such small forces when one commissioner could do the job? Why have two cops on desk duty 24hours a day, seven days a week, when one cop could easily handle both departments? How many walk ins a day do both police depts receive?

Showing my age. Anybody have 1960's or early 1970's pictures of YPD cars? It's possible they may appear in the backround of YFD fire photos.

Thank You.

An actor friend tipped me off yesterday as to how the series ends during the May 6the final episode.

Do you want me tell you ???????

And althought he ratings were good, the network wants the time slot for their latest Law and Order series.

Ha ! Ha!

Happy April Fool's Day !!!!!!!!!!!

FYI: Heard that the city is having another vehicle auction this June.

So some fire rigs may turn up like the last few auctions. Usually there were only one or two engines being sold for scrap.

And I wasn't even taking pictures, just just want to give everybody a heads up. Camera phones are possibly discreet enough, but is the photo quality any good???

Be careful taking photos in high crime neighborhoods like parts of southwest Yonkers. The drug dealers and company may suspect you are photgraphing them, or some other the other myriad of illegal, open activities conducted everyday. I actually saw drug dealers out very early last Saturday morning on Linden Street and Oak Street off Elm in Yonkers. This also hold true for certain NYC areas like Little Italy, etc populated by the real life Sopranos.

And there are no photography signs posted on the George Washington Bridge.

On Wednesday, April 20th from 8AM-7PM, Yonkers Business Week is holding an event at Ridge Hill which will be open to the public.

It is free of charge and the guard will let you in if attending, no questions asked.

Here's your golden opportunity to photgraph the Yonkers FD Bunker

For more info on this event, go to cityofyonkers.com and see Yonkers Business Week in the "Doing Business With Yonkers" section. I stink at cut and paste, or would have done so.

Sorry to have read this in their IMDB.COM message baord, but after the remaining 5 episodes beginning April 8th, Third Watch will not return. And the ratings always were high for their time slot. Wonder what happened??

How will the show end????????i

Which jurisdiction owns the vehicles used by the Greenburgh Drug and Alcohol Task Force? As you know, several town municipalities participate in this task force.