That night, Cindy and Philip's friend Manny called the 13th Precinct house because he hadn't been seen in days.

The men of Able Team would normally have been able to walk right into the Eighty-first Precinct house.

It was inside a bathroom in the 70th Precinct house that officers tortured Abner Louima in 1997.

The police scheduled, then canceled two news conferences at the 62d Precinct house.

Those who worked with Sean McDonald walked around the 44th Precinct house yesterday in a daze of grief.

A police officer was hit with shards of shattered glass yesterday after two stray bullets plowed into the 88th Precinct house in Brooklyn, the police said.

There they had to bolt out into the open, and go east for a few queasy blocks to where the 20th Precinct house was, in the Third Avenue.

Between them, husband and wife, they were able to live comfortably in a wholly owned refurbished brownstone right next to the 251st Precinct house.

Nine more men were later taken into custody when a large group gathered in front of the 71st Precinct house to protest the initial arrests.

"I took the case home over the weekend in two cardboard boxes," Inspector Johnson said in a news conference yesterday at the 81st Precinct house.