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This week on Mic’d In New Haven, it’s another volume of The E-Men: Inside The NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit — and my guest is retired NYPD Emergency Service Unit Lieutenant Nicholas Bavaro.
Nick’s 20-year career with the NYPD began in January 1984, serving in the Neighborhood Stabilization Unit, the 34th Precinct, and the department’s legendary Street Crime Unit, where he earned his promotion to Sergeant.
He would go on to supervise officers in the 28th and 26th Precincts, return to Street Crime under Chief Al Materasso, and serve with the Organized Crime Control Bureau’s Northern Manhattan Initiative.
After being promoted to Lieutenant, Nick returned to Street Crime as an Integrity Control Officer under Chief Bruce Smolka during one of the most scrutinized periods in the unit’s history, following the shooting of Amadou Diallo.
But in 2000, his career would take another turn when he joined the NYPD’s elite Emergency Service Unit, serving as a Citywide Supervisor and Lieutenant of Emergency Service Truck 7 in Brooklyn.
He was also a member of ESU during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
While still on the job, Nick began studying law, before a diagnosis of an ascending aortic aneurysm ultimately preceded his retirement in January 2004.
From the streets of Manhattan to the Street Crime Unit, from organized crime enforcement to commanding Emergency Service personnel — we’re talking about two decades of policing across some of the NYPD’s most demanding assignments.
That’s retired NYPD ESU Lieutenant Nicholas Bavaro, on The E-Men: Inside The NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit — only on the Mic’d In New Haven Podcast.
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