If Pat Russo ever needs affirmation that he is doing the Lord’s work, all he has to do is remember how a $25,000 check to help cover costs recently arrived in the mail.
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Police Cadet Honored at Holy Cross Cemetery 55 Years After His Death
Decades after his heroic death, family, friends, and fellow officers gathered at Holy Cross Cemetery to honor Patrolman Pat Canavan — an off-duty NYPD officer killed while trying to stop a street fight in Bay Ridge.
Annual Xaverian Fall Run Honors Memory of Fallen Police Officer
The signs of autumn are all around us: pumpkin spice, leaves changing colors, and Halloween decorations. But in Bay Ridge, fall doesn’t happen without the annual P.O. Christopher Hoban Memorial 5-Mile and 5-K Run.
Former At-Risk Youth Turned Cop, Pro Boxer Helps Kids Cope
Nisa Rodriguez, once an at-risk youth, is now a professional boxer and an NYPD cop assigned to community resource duties at a Flatbush Gardens housing complex.
Boxing Club Making Champions In and Out of Ring for 40 Years
For 40 years, NYC Cops & Kids Boxing has been shaping young lives in Brooklyn — teaching discipline, respect, and resilience while turning out champions in and out of the ring.
NYPD’s ‘Italian Sherlock Holmes’ Honored With Headstone Nearly a Century Later
It took nearly 100 years, but the Pucciano family finally got to say a proper goodbye to NYPD Detective Joseph Pucciano, famous for his savvy investigative skills and crime-fighting abilities in New York City.
UPDATE: Astoria Man Indicted for Destruction of Baby Jesus Statue at Queens Church
Police have made an arrest of a suspect who walked into Immaculate Conception Church in Astoria and smashed a statue of the Baby Jesus following Mass on April 6.
The incident is being investigated as a hate crime by the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force.
A Fighting Chance ‘Brother Lou’ On Journey to Raise Awareness, Punch Out Depression
Lou Sandoval, 60, aims to hammer a heavy bag for 33 hours on April 15 for the “Punching Out at Depression” marathon event.
NYPD Holy Name Society Honors Fallen Hero for Faith and Sacrifice
Almost a year to the date of his line of duty death, Det. Jonathan Diller’s widow, Stephanie, sat in Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Queens Village on March 9 for the annual NYPD Brooklyn-Queens Holy Name Society Mass.
Higher Mission: Military, Police Recommit to Faith During Jubilee
A group of U.S. pilgrims who crossed the threshold of the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. Mary Major Feb. 6 have traveled the world on the orders of superiors, but no one ordered them to make this trip and that made a huge difference, they said.