"Life on Mars" TV show, 1973 nyc

On Oct 22, 12:49 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Oct 17, 10:37 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
>
> > There's no 15th, NYPD Blue, but they filmed exteriors on location.
>
> I noticed on modern NYC police shows they refer to precint numbers as
> "One Two Five", not "one hundred-twenty fifth".  But in one show, a
> comedy, they said "fifty-third", not "five three".
>
> Is it typical NYC cop practice to pronounce each digit?

We used to live next door to the "thirty-fourth" precinct.

It's TV cop-speak, anyway, to pronounce each digit; it does avoid
confusion between e.g. seventh and seventieth.

> > Hill Street Blues was set in an unnamed city but the station house was
> > in Chicago -- I passed by it a few times, a bit northwest of the Loop.
>
> The background building scenes of that show were taken from many
> cities.  A courthouse was represented by Phila's  City Hall.

The most usual courthouse on Boston Legal sure looks to me like the
old (McKim Mead & White, the side that doesn't have Philip Johnson's
addition) Public Library.

"Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
> hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> > I noticed on modern NYC police shows they refer to precint numbers as
> > "One Two Five", not "one hundred-twenty fifth". But in one show, a
> > comedy, they said "fifty-third", not "five three".
>
> > Is it typical NYC cop practice to pronounce each digit?
>
> We used to live next door to the "thirty-fourth" precinct.
>
> It's TV cop-speak, anyway, to pronounce each digit; it does avoid
> confusion between e.g. seventh and seventieth.

When I got in a fender-bender with a retired NYC cop, he told me if I
needed a police report for insurance purposes I should go to "the two-
three".

Jimmy

On Oct 24, 12:32 pm, JimmyGeldb...@mailinator.com wrote:
> "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
>
> > hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> > > I noticed on modern NYC police shows they refer to precint numbers as
> > > "One Two Five", not "one hundred-twenty fifth".  But in one show, a
> > > comedy, they said "fifty-third", not "five three".
>
> > > Is it typical NYC cop practice to pronounce each digit?
>
> > We used to live next door to the "thirty-fourth" precinct.
>
> > It's TV cop-speak, anyway, to pronounce each digit; it does avoid
> > confusion between e.g. seventh and seventieth.
>
> When I got in a fender-bender with a retired NYC cop, he told me if I
> needed a police report for insurance purposes I should go to "the two-
> three".

How recently was that?

"Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
JimmyGeldb...@mailinator.com wrote:
> > When I got in a fender-bender with a retired NYC cop, he told me if I
> > needed a police report for insurance purposes I should go to "the two-
> > three".
>
> How recently was that?

3 or 4 years ago.

Jimmy

On Oct 25, 5:27 pm, FreeTrav <m...@> wrote:
> hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> >On Oct 17, 10:37 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
> >> There's no 15th, NYPD Blue, but they filmed exteriors on location.
> >I noticed on modern NYC police shows they refer to precint numbers as
> >"One Two Five", not "one hundred-twenty fifth".  But in one show, a
> >comedy, they said "fifty-third", not "five three".
> >Is it typical NYC cop practice to pronounce each digit?
>
> Yes.  Distinctly pronouncing each digit avoids the possibility of
> confusion, e.g., "Fifty" (Five-oh) vs. "Fifteen" (one-five), over the
> radio, and it just naturally carries over into other PD-related usages.
> They do it for numbered streets, too.

There isn't any 15th Precinct (that's why they used that number in
NYPD Blue, and that's why I used 17/70, and not the more easily
confused 15/50, in my posting).

> Back in the day, the TA never published them, but the public
>figured the codes out.

When I was a pre-teen I wrote to the Board of Transportation asking
for the list and they actually sent me one.
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