Tudor City Residents Voice Neighborhood Concerns

New York, NY—Three months after last meeting with residents of Tudor City for a Build the Block Safety Meeting, two Neighborhood Coordination Officers from the NYPD 17^th Precinct met again with about 15 residents at Tudor Grove Playground earlier today to provide an update to some ongoing crime complaints they heard in February, while residents voiced recent concerns related to quality-of-life issues.

The NCOs, Christopher Carlucci and John Lamneck, for example, told the residents in February that they needed to be aware of a pervasive problem of phone scams targeting the elderly. Indeed, as we reported last week, the 17^th Precinct’s Commanding Officer, Aaron C. Edwards, noted that there have been significant financial losses because of the scams.

“So, it’s something to be aware of—if you do get a phone call from the IRS, the utility company or the Social Security administration asking for money over the phone, that’s not how they…