New-York tribune., 1920-11-29

| most exclusive section Of the new Park
Avenue apartments and apartment
hotels is covered by the East Fifty
frst Street station.
One Of Roughest Precincts
On the other end of the precinct
the East Side-the patrofmen are
called upon to handle some Of the
toughest characters in the city's un-
derworld. The district from Forty
second Street to Fifty ninth Street,
east Of Third Avenue, is infested with
crooks who are constantly being i'm
plicated in ho!d-ups, burglares and
drug selling cases.
East Sixty seventh Street Precinct
Conditions were found to be about
the same as in the East Fifty-frst
Street station. There were thirty two
patrol zones, or posts, which were COW
cred after midnight by twenty two
man. 1t was said that the territory
of the East Sixty-seventh Street pre-
cinct is considerably smaller than that
of its southern neighbor. The pa
trolmen attached to what is called
the Arsenal station, in the park, cover
Central Park from Ffty-ninth Street
to 10th Street and from Fifth Avenue
to Central Park West.
In the East Sixty-seventh Street
precincl there are located several ex-
elusive hotels, clubs such as the Metro
politan, banks, the homes Of Ebert II.
Gary and all the Gouds, etc In this
precinct there have been several un-
solved murders committed, innumer-
able big robberies, etc, and there are
to be handled east of Third Avenue the
same sort of underworld characters
that infest the precinct to the south.
Eat Eighty-ei eighth Street Station-A
better condition of patrol was found.
There, with only twenty-eight patrol
zones to cover, twenty-three men were
assigned to patrol duty. This is also an
important district, in which are located,
on the southern end, the homes of
prominent men. But to the north it
runs into tenements, except east of
Lexington Avenue, where many of the
prominent German and Irish families,
who have always been identified with
Yorkville, still live.
West Forty y-seventh Street Precinct
This is the precinct where Honest
Dan" Costigan, when head of the vice
. squad found so much TO do, and where
! Assistant District Attorney jim Smith
made raid after raid only a short time
ago: There are ffty-one patrol zones
with forty-five men to cover them.
There are many prominent hotels, jew
elry shops, manufacturers lofts and
aters are located here.
West Sixty eighth Street Precinct
This precinct covers Central Park
West and other residential sections, UP
to West 10th Street. 1t was found
that the system here was improved
over that in the others. But the COM
parison was based on the number Of
posts given by the officials, which did
not check up with the unofficial record
In West Sixty-eighth Street there
were twenty-five men counted leaving
the house. The lieutenant refused to
give out the number Cf posts, insisting
he had all but one covered. In West
Tooth Street twenty-three men turned
out and the officials declared they had
but twenty-five posts to cover.
In Harlem the reporters were con-
fronted with the same difficulty in get
ting the desk lieutenants to give out
the actual figures.
They did, however, learn that there
were five men short in the East 1Q4th
Street precinct, where thirty four men
posts, and that in the East l26th Street
station there were twenty-five men
turned out to cover thirty posts,
In the section covered by the West
125th Street precinct there were only
eighteen men turned out to cover twen-
ty-six posts.
In the West 152d Street precinct
there was q full quota of policemen
working. This is based on police fig
ures on the number of posts Eighteen
men were counted going ON the mid
night tour and the lieutenant said he
had only eighteen posts to cover.
In Mayor Hylan's home precinct, the
Ralph Avenue precinct in Brooklyn, it
was found that twenty-five men had
been sent out to cover twenty light
posts and one of the twenty-five was
assigned to guard the Mayors home, on
Bushwick Avenue.
In Police Commissioner Enright's
home precinct-the Atlantic Avenue
section-there we're nineteen men
turned out to cover twenty-four posts
One Of the nineteen does nothing but
cover the Commissioner home on st.
Marks Avenue.