Hi Pat, I'm really surprised to hear that. My great-grandfather served in the NYPD at approximately the same time as your father (beginning in the 1920s; I can't look up at the moment just when he retired) and the police department was able to provide me with a substantial amount of information, including a photograph, records of his promotions and various transfers (even temporary) within the department, etc. They were definitely keeping records during that time period! When did you request the records? I understand that the NYPD has a database that is used to access these records for this kind of request - if your request was more than a few years ago, I wonder if trying again might yield better results? Maybe the database is a relatively recent innovation allowing them to fulfill family history requests. (My request was fulfilled in 2009.) I sent my request to Chief of Personnel Staff Services Section 1 Police Plaza Room 1208 New York, NY 10038 -Katie On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Pat Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > I SENT FOR MY FATHERS ' RECORDS TO A GENTLEMAN AT POLICE PLAZA IN NYC. > HE HAD BEEN ON THE PD FROM 1922-1942. LAST SERVED IN THE 23RD PRECEINT > ,NOW ON 102ND ST AND 2ND AVE AND A MUCH LARGER BUILDING THAN WHEN HE WAS > THERE. THIS AREA BACK THEN WAS CONSIDERED HARLEM, EXTENDING W. TO 110TH > ST, BACK THEN ,NOW CONSIDERED AS PART OF FROM 110TH & HUDSON RIVER TO PAST > W. 125TH,FROM WHAT I WAS TOLD. WHEN HE RETIRED THE STREETS FROM MORNING > SIDE HEIGHTS AND N TO ABOUT 125TH WERE CONSIDERED COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AREA. > THE ONLY RECORDS THEY HAD OF MY FATHER WAS DATE HE WAS SWORN IN AND DATE > HE RETIRED, AND NOTICE OF HIS DEATH IN 1966. THEY SAID THERE WERE NO > RECORDS KEPT AT THAT TIME OF THAT PERIOD. THEE IS PROBABLY MUCH MORE ON > RECORDS OF TODAYS POLICE, WHAT WITH ALL THE COMPUTERS IN EACH STATION AND > FORMS TO BE FILLED OUT. > I DO KNOW FROM FAMILY STORIES/LORE, HE WAS A PLAINCLOTHES DETECTIVE DURING > PROBITION WHEN HE WAS ASSIGNED AT ANOTHER STATION AT AT ONE TIME WORKED AT > A STATION ON KINGS-BRIDGE RD. IN BRONX. > GOOD LUCK IN YOUR SEARCH. > ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== > Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, > check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >