Call them the “Boys in Pink.”
Police honchos named the 60th Precinct the city’s pinkest on Nov. 20 after Coney cops went all-out raising awareness during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The station edged out Brownsville’s 73rd Precinct and another station house in the Bronx for the honor, and the friendly competition was none-the-less hard-fought, one officer said.
“I feel we helped out for a good cause, did the best we could, went all out, we played hard, and we won,” said community affairs officer Eric Castagliola.
The cops working out of the W. Eighth Street station house kicked off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a bang, partnering with Luna Park to have the Parachute Jump’s array of light-emitting diodes lit in the signature shade of breast cancer awareness and display “60 pct goes pink,” according to officer Laurie Healy.
The officers then took their mission over to the New York Aquarium, where they introduced sea lions to the sport of Frisbee and gave the marine mammals there some pink disks to toss around — or do whatever it is that sea lions do with Frisbees, she said.
Every officer at the 60 pitched in to do their part, and the cops adorned their uniforms in various pink accouterments, such as pink ties and pink hash marks at their sleeves, according to Healy.
But perhaps no officer stepped up to the plate more than the 60th Precinct’s commanding officer, Deputy Inspector William Taylor — the precinct pinked his ride, highlighting the blacked-out Ford Fusion in hot pink, Healy said.
“They turned his unmarked vehicle into a marked car,” she said.
The precinct concluded Breast Cancer Awareness Month by hooking up with Coney Island Hospital to treat a bevy of breast cancer survivors to lunch at Tom’s Coney Island on the boardwalk — plus they gave the special ladies tickets to a Brooklyn Bolts football game, where they were invited onto field and officers handed them pink flowers, Healy said.
Department higher-ups gave the Coney precinct $500 to treat themselves to a nice meal as a prize for their philanthropic endeavors, but the officers there say they’d rather donate the money to a worthy charity, according to one cop.
“The original plan was to cater lunch for the precinct, but we were considering doing something different and donating it to a charity,” said Officer Laurie Healy.
