This fellow comes from a distant NYPD past ... the age of Jim Cirillo, Eddie Egan, Sonny Grosso, and countless other NYPD detectives/officers who kept the City as safe as possible during some turbulent times. A lot has transpired during the past four + decades in NYC ... not all of it for the better.
Meet the most decorated detective in NYPD history | New York Post
(Courtesy of NY Post .com)
Great story!
As kids we used to jump on the bus(#27) and hang out on Southern Blvd and Westchester Ave, very close to Simpson St. They had a pretty good pizza shop right on the corner. And down the block a surplus store name Harry's.
The FOUR ONE, I think Sip's dad worked there back in the day. Maybe Sip will chime in.
My friends older sister, Gail, married a guy named Davey Cohen. On his first or second week out of the academy, he was run over by a guy right in front of the FOUR ONE. I think he lasted a couple more years but his knees were pretty busted up and they forced him off.
I'm sure Davey knew Friedman, they started about the same time. I haven't seen Davey in many years, he's probably down south somewhere.
It was called Fort Apache and sometime later Little House on the Prairie when all the nearby building were torn down and it was standing pretty much by itself.
It's since been relocated.
I could be wrong, but I think the Pct scenes, in the movie, were really the old FOUR TWO. It's been awhile since I saw the picture.
