- Ninth Precinct
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Ninth Precinct Agency overview Legal personality Governmental: Government agency Jurisdictional structure Legal jurisdiction East Village, Alphabet City, Loisaida and NoHo General nature - Law enforcement
- Civilian agency
Operational structure Agency executives - Raymond W Kelly, Commissioner
- Kenneth Lehr, Deputy Inspector
Website Official website 
The Ninth Precinct
The Ninth Precinct is a police precinct in New York City. It is one of the 76 New York City Police Department patrol areas. Its boundaries are East 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the west, East Houston Street to the south and the East River to the east.
It is three-quarters of a square mile in area, and covers the neighborhoods commonly referred to as the East Village, Alphabet City, Manhattan, Loisaida and NoHo.
The Ninth Precinct's nicknames are "The Fighting Ninth" and also the "Shithouse"
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History
The precinct was originally designated as the Fifteenth Precinct. When a new stationhouse, which was designed by the firm of Hoppin & Koen in 1912, was built at 321 East 5th Street, the Fifteenth Precincts numbers were carved into the pediment.
The Fifteenth Precinct became the Ninth in 1929 during a citywide renumbering of precincts.
The stationhouse was closed in May 2002 and demolished. A new taller building was erected and the original stone facade was re-installed. While the stationhouse was being rebuilt, the Ninth Precinct moved to 130 Avenue C and shared a building with PSA 4, a Housing Police unit that serves the area of Manhattan south of 59th Street.
The "Fighting Ninth" moved into the new stationhouse at 321 East 5th Street on May 18, 2007.
Notable locations
- Grace Church, New York
- St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
- Cooper Union
- McSorley's Old Ale House
- Merchants House Museum
- Portions of the NYU Campus
- Saint Marks Place
- Avenue A
- Avenue B
- Avenue C
- Avenue D
- Bowery (Manhattan)
- Tompkins Square Park
- East River Park
- The now defunct
Notable occurrences
- Astor Place Riot
- New York Draft Riots
- Tompkins Square Park Riot
- Wigstock
- The theft of A T Stewart's body
- The Daniel Rakowitz case
- The Jack Abbott case
Television and motion pictures
The facade of the precinct stationhouse at 321 East 5th Street has been used as the setting for three police television series, Kojak, Cagney and Lacey and NYPD Blue. The precinct is called the 15th in NYPD Blue because those numbers can still be seen carved into the restored pediment.
The stationhouse facade was also used in the movie Glitter.
External links
Categories:- Precincts of the New York City Police Department
- East Village, Manhattan
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