Fashion Center BID honors Police Commissioner and Manhattan's DA.The Fashion Center Business Improvement District (BID) recently honored Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, Police Commissioner Howard Safir Howard Safir (born 1941 in the Bronx, New York) was New York City Fire Commissioner from 1994 to 1996 and New York City Police Commissioner from 1996 to 2000. Safir was appointed New York City's 29th Fire Commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor Rudolph W. and First Deputy Commissioner Patrick Kelleher with the inaugural Fashion Center Award of Recognition - a large crystal button - for greatly reducing crime and improving quality of life in the district, which is home to New York's $24 billion a year fashion industry, at a breakfast in their honor at the Bryant Park Bryant Park is a 9.603 acre (39,000 m²) public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is bounded by Fifth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, 40th Street and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan.[1] The central building of the New York Public Library is in the park. Grill. The officials, along with dozens of uniformed officers, were lauded for their efforts by Fashion Center BID President George S George, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, rising in a lake on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, E Canada. It flows N through Indian Lake (125 sq mi/324 sq km) to Ungava Bay (an arm of Hudson Strait). . Kaufman, BID Executive Director Barbara Randall and a crowd of top fashion company executives who are members of the BID. This October, District Attorney Morgenthau, Commissioner Safir and First Deputy Commissioner Kelleher concluded an extremely successful year-long investigation in the district that resulted in 102 indictments and led to the closing of a pool hall on 37th Street and Eighth Avenue that was operating as a $5.5 million a year narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. den. District Attorney Morgenthau said, "The Fashion Center BID has been instrumental in the reduction of crime in the community, and I urge the BID to continue to use the many resources available to them in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office." Police Commissioner Safir said, "The revitalization re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. of the Fashion District is the result of a public and private partnership. The men and women of the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Police Department, the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of County District Attorney's Office and the Fashion Center BID have taken what was once a high crime area, and together, have achieved a dramatic reduction of crime." Kaufman, president of the Fashion Center BID, said "We are so pleased to honor the men and women who have helped to make the renaissance of the Fashion Center possible. Mayor Giuliani's innovative crime reduction and prevention policies and the police department's and Manhattan District Attorney's efforts have led to a citywide drop in crime, echoed by a 52 percent decrease in major crime activity in the Fashion Center BID area during our five years of existence." |
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