Dr. Zuki

My name is Tommy and a community activist-buff from Yonkers for 100 years. Also work as a film extra in NYC. Happy New Year to all.

When I suggested hiring consultants, I did not mean a private business consulting company, but did mean law enforcement recognized organizations like the International Association of Police Chiefs, etc.

x615, Sounds like Greenwich is too steeped in it's ways, but many other police agencies are not all open to change either. That said, the town should commission a study from The International Association of Police Chiefs or any other police recognized consultants. Civilian traffic cops work, just look at the busiest corners in NYC and you will see them on a daily basis. They are technically considered members of the police department. It works, you just have to be open minded. And Greenwich likely has been victimized by the most professional, organized burglar teams in America. Do they have a problem with pick lock burglars in their apartment buildings? And the other thing that escapes me since the cops have encryption, why don't they use it on a full time basis??? Happy New Year to all.

They should also civilianize those wastful, three cops on crossing guard duty on Greenwich Avenue. Absurd waste of manpower having cops do this function.

Tomorrow night, not sure what time, "Across The Universe" is filming a riot scene on Fifth Avenue near 103 Street, NYC. If you go there early in the evening or early Saturday morning, the prop emergency vehicles will be there for you to shoot. Columbia University didn't want them doing the scene nearby, so the above neighborhood is being substitiuted or "cheated" as they say in the business.

Go to Ebay and search under Yonkers. The last item on page three is a Yonkers Raceway police patch. Nice logo. The use of the word "Police" was objected to by a former Yonkers Poice Commissioner who argued that that word can only be used by actual police forces. Don't know if there is any legal merit to that argument.

Truck 4, Thanks for the info. NY Racing Association cops are not assigned at Yonkers as this is the only privately owned track in the state. And that's a good thing given the impending bankruptcy of the corrupt NY State Racing Association. I believe some of the other tracks outsourced their security to Wackenhut a few years back. Yonkers raceway security does use the name "Police" and one former Yonkers PD Commissioner ( McEvoy) took issue with this years back. I have never seen their frequency listed anywhere over the years. Yonkers has negotiated for payments to cover the massive amount of police overtime neeeded for traffic details. Will be like the old days during the 1960's when the track peaked in popularity. I am hoping for a hotel and convention someday on the raceway property, space permitting. Latest rumor is the track seeking a statewide referendum for legalized prostitution.... Happy Thanksgiving to all.

They are supposed to open again for horse racing long before the video lottery terminals are completed along with new restaurants. Hope they demolish that blighted parking garage on the corner of Yonkers and Central. Or at least paint it.

It's posted in Yonkerstribune.com and may be in the Journal News as well, Councilmember Dee Barbato proposes another fire company as part of the Ridge Hill development in addition to two more police sector cars sorely needed even without Ridge Hill. It's unclear where the new fire company may be located. Possibly on the Ridge Hill site?? But if it were located there, the response times would be affected by access to and from Ridge Hill's long, slopped entry way. Time will tell. Have a safe, happy halloween.

On Wednesday, October 12, 2005. A huge riot scene for the upcoming Beatles movie musical "Across The Universe" is being filmed beginning early morning on Third Avenue at East 161 Street in the Bronx. It's supposed to be 1960's Detroit with several hundred actors including Detroit cops, fireman and National Guard units. Sniper fire comes from area rooftops with fake fires being set. 48 prop vehicles including fire and police. The building at this location is the former Bronx Courthouse.

Posponed due to the rain until tomorrow. And they may do a building explosion scene.

Great piece posted today on yonkerstribune.com regarding Homeland Secuirty grant issues between the Yonkers cops and fire departments. You can post comments if you like. Hope they both smoke the peace pipe. Stay Dry.

Stamford Advocate has nice, easy to read graphics. Don't like the revamped Jorunal News.

Check out yonkersfilmoffice.com for photos of the Yonkers shoot for the season two opening episode. The site also has some fire house exteriors that filmmakers may find appealing.

Why was this site being hacked anyway? What did the hacker have against it??? I loved it and am sorry it's gone. Was a wonderful resource. Radioreference.com is pretty good. Hopefully somebody else will statr a site similiar to fordyce very soon.

It was likely the new movie about the Beatles "Across the Universe." Thursday morning they were on a residential side street just off Eastchester Road. Supposed to be filming someplace in Yonkers soon. They are using the Yonkers Stages on Tuckahoe Road opposite Shop Rite.

Good photos and write up regarding yesterday's YFD departure to New Orleans posted on www.yonkerstribune.com. Anybody know when Yonkers PD is going down there ?? P.S. Anybody know if they took down a portable repeater so they can use their portable radios? NYPD did so.

Except for arson investigations, it's likely that all FDNY photos are a matter of public record as per the Freddom of Information Law. They would have to be made available for both inspection and copying by the public at large.

Anybody know know if their local trustees, councilmembers, Mayors, etc., are into scanning? Surprisingly, a major NYC dealer told me that politicans were more into scanning fire rather than police.

I didn't see it, but they probably copied photos belonging to the YFD. Law and Order did this with YPD photos which you will see on the wall in the office of actor Dan Florek. This was written about months back in the Journal News. They come to shoot in Westchester about 5 times a year. Too bad "Third Watch" never came up here.

[They also filmed in Yonkers at the Tyrone House bar at the bottom of Main Street opposite the Post Office and in the City Hall courtroom which is used by numerous productions from films to TV's Dateline. Anybody know if they shot anywhere else in Yonkers besides Fire HQ?

Steve, FYI: It's relatively simple for you and/or anybody else to make an application for landmarking of YFD HQ to the city landmarks review Board which has done this process for several buildings in Yonkers this year alone. The most recent of which is the old power plant at the bottom of Glenwood Avenue at the Hudson River. I hope Station 10 on Saw Mill River Road is landmarked. Would be a sin to demolish it if that fire company moves to Tuckahoe Road, Ridge Hill or wherever the rumor of the week is. And who knows? As the area changes, maybe the old HQ will be sold and converted to some other use, be it residential or commercial. That don't build 'em like that anymore, that's for sure !! Will bet anybody $1000.00 right here that the stadium nearby is never, ever, built.

Google "New York State Committee on Open Government" and you'll see the prinatble letter needed to submit you request for the 9-11 tapes. Send it to the FDNY Commissioner's office. Good idea to also look at the advisory opinions on the above web page. Importnat to know that it's illegal for anybody to ask you why you want access toi any public documents. And this does occur --for shame--too often. Also see if you can get the Journal News series about the Freedom of Information Law expose done several months back.

Google "New York State Committee on Open Government" for the form letter needed to make your request and then send it to the FDNY Commissioner's office. Note that under this law, it's illegal for them to even ask why you want the documents. I am guessing that the tapes are already on the net somewhere and will soon be for sale on Ebay. A public librbary might even purchase the CD for either reference or circulation purposes.

Do a Google search under "New York State Committe on Open Government" and you can download the Freedom of Information Request letter. Then call the FDNY and ask who their Public Records Access Officer is so you cna mail your request. They can legally charge you 25 cents per page, don't know about charges for the CD of the tapes. But, I would guess this stuff will be on Ebay sooner or later. Maybe some public libraries will have the CD ????