Dr. Zuki

Heard, unconfirmed, that the Yonkers PD and FD radio room at Police HQ may be relocated to the city N Vallley Building on Nepperhan Avenue @Axminster Street.

What would be the possible rationale for this? Maybe they fear a terrorsist attack of Police HQ ? But this N Valley building is way, way less secure than the present HQ.

FYI: They do have an alternative back up radio room, but the location is ultra secret.

Thanks and Happy Haloween.

Don't know, but the developer has been very open about holding meetings with the public, so drop them an email with your suggestions as I strongly believe the ballpark will be wisely dropped from this project and extra space may be available.

The only drawings of this project are on patriciamcdow.com and they are vague at this point. The developer plans to divulge everything in November regarding this massive project. I would like to see the YFD emblem put on the outside of the building similiar to NYC Board of Education symbol placed on the exterior of many schools. It's a nice touch. And since this is part of an office building, the front will likely be nice architecturally.

Most important is that the YFD have full input regarding the new faciltity. Let's have the most state of art building possible.

Have heard nothing about a training center that I highly doubt it is part of this project.

As per Joe Apicella, Vice President of Cappelli Enterprises, the new Yonkers Fire HQ will be located at the corner of Nepperhan Avenue and New Main Street as part of a new 40,000 square foot office building being contructed with the retail center in adjoining Chicken Island parking area.

This is written up in today's Westchester County Business Journal. Hopefully the online version will appear later today or tomorrow at westchestercbj.com. The story is contained in the article about Ridge Hill.

I was hoping maybe the existing HQ could somehow be rehabilitated and incorporated into the new retail project. Hate to see that piece of YFD history demolished, but who knows? Maybe it will end up landmarked and saved.

Also, the city hall annex nearby at 87 Nepperhan Avenue is being demolished along with the city hall garage for another office structure.

Happy Labor Day to all.

Once again, just make a Freedom of Information Request to examine the bid or requests for proposals for the new radio system to see what they bought in full detail. It's a matter of public record.

Look at the bid documents ( public record) for the new radio system to see full details.

Somebody on this board months back said they had optional encryption with their current system, but disabled it for reasons unknown.

With the new system, are all channels to be encrypted? Many systems elsewhere only encrypt some frequencies leaving others in the clear.

Are they ever going to civilianize the three wasted cops that direct traffic on Greenwich Avenue??? Just look at how effectively it was done in NYC.

Thanks and Stay Cool.

Yonkers DPW ran out of barricades last night.......

P.S---and who taught today's kids that it's okay to put your feet up on everybody else's fine furnture ????

Good posting and it's just part of the larger hostility found in many facets of life nowadays unfortunately. Construction crews have also been subject to cursing and thrown objects. Sadly, crude behavior is popular with too many in our society.

Check out any Adam Sandler movie for example.

Remember back in the day when nobody dared to ever saythe words SUCK or

F--- ????

Now you hear them in PG rated movies.....and even sometimes it's slipped into network television. Many of today's generation cannot say one sentence without cursing and feel there is nothing wrong with doing so either.

I believe you can be arrested for cursing at law enforcement officers.

Some kids from my clique did so in the early 1970's at a Bronxville cop and were all locked up for disorderly conduct or something similiar, car impounded---deservingly so !!!

Happy Weekend.

Many thanks for the tip.

The airport limo from Yonkers to JFK costs more than the flight !!!!!!

Saw a sign at a contruction site in downtown Yonkers asking for two way radios to be turned off.

How do area Fire, Police and EMT's handle this ?

Was told that two way radios are used to detonate the blasting and other radio transmissions may set off the dynamie being used.

Thanks.

FYI: I served on federal jury duty several years back in lower NYC, Foley Square.

I asked why I could not serve in White Plains at the new federal courthouse and the reason is that they only have four judges and fewer cases along with giving preference to those jurors living upstate to avoid forcing them into a long journey to lower NYC.

The federal court district extends way, way upstate.

Some 1960's vintage movie cars out on the lot at 285 Tuckahoe Road, Yonkers, movie studio.

Gene Hackman's black Ford unmarked rmp from "The French Connection" plus two green and black 1960's NYPD RMPS and the black Coupe Deville crashed by the mob guys at the end of "Magnum Force" is also there.

These are all for Denzel Washington's upcoming film "American Gangster"

which will mostly shoot nights in Harlem. Russell Crowe's "Tenderness" is also using the Yonkers Stages right now.

Happy Memorial Day to all.

How much more dangerous than conventional gasoline are these other auto fuels such as ethanol, natural gas, vegetable oil, etc? Have Police and Fire Dept's been trained yet for potential jobs ??

What were the dangers with Hybrid car fires mentioned months back ?

Thank You.

After any fire, is a written report required? If so, what member of the fire dept writes them???

Thanks and Happy Memorial Day.

How about putting it on Governor's Island which is virtually inaccessible to unauthorized visitors???

Saw them at the Texas Avenue fire and wondered if they respond to all fires or just multiple alarm fires where people need to be relocated?

Once, and only once, I heard their director on the air as 92 car.

I know their Civil Defense volunteers do lighting for crime scene searches for many years now.

Angelina's Food is very good as is dinner at nearby Mamma Asunta.

Somebody on Central Avenue, Yonkers, southbound was clocked I believe doing 100 mph or so coming out ot the Tuckahoe Road overpass. This was a couple years back.

Ther troopers are way short staffed and have little coverage on the entire Sprain Brook Pkwy.

FYI to all Yonkers emergency responders:

358 Nepperhan Avenue and all of the other privately owned-government subsidized apartment buildings were built with dangerous aluminum wiring allowed because the fire codes don't apply to quasi-government agencies, in this case, it was the former NY State Urban Development Corporation in the early 1970's.

Same situation exists with the Port Authority that built the World Trade Center under it's own building and fire codes.

Saw a marked Tuckahoe police car at last night's Texas Avenue fire in Yonkers and wondered if police mutual aid for fires is now common practice throughout Westchester, or is this just unique to Yonkers?

Had first noticed this two years ago when NYPD Highway was diverting traffic during YPD Anti Crime's shoot out in the Macy's north lot, Cross County Center.

Thank You.

No kidding, but will pepper spray work on a coyote should there be an unavoidable confrontation???

A fox was photographed in a wooded Yonkers area between McIntyre Street and Parkview Avenue recently.

Wild turkeys seen on the Sprain Pkwy near Central Avenue and on the Hutch in Scarsdale.

Just a warning if you are buying another car:

Hondas and Camrys seem to be the most stolen in Yonkers and the surrounding areas of lower Westchester. Add Acura Integras also.

These three cars are great, but just be warned the car thieves absolutely love them.

SteveOFD,

What is the FCC link please??

(Am too lazy to look it up myself)

Third Watch Precinct: It looks like a facade and not a real building.

I believe some of the other precinct shots are actually the back of the Warner Brothers Studio at 196 Diamond Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Pixxcars.com is a larger supplier than is movietimecars.com as mentioned above.

Movietimecars.com had a bunch of them out on Saturday and Sunday at the Library on 42nd and Fifth Avenue for a TV pilot "The Traveller" with the library faked as a museum. Engine 86 from Third Watch was there. Sorry I had no camera.

It is especially disturbing to see this behavior occuring above I-287.

And I say that as everybody in the lower urban areas of our county believes that moving "upstate" is the cure all in escaping from all of urban problems found in cities like Yonkers, Mount Vernon, etc.

This generation has become way to desensitized to violence that is way, way overboard and increasingly graphic. These video games like "Grand Theft Auto" and others are absolutely appalling. Yet there is no condemanation from any medical and/or mental health organizations.

Sequels to "Saw" and "Hostel" were announced this week, both of which promise even more graphic slayings.

God help us all !!!