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.