A Year In Bushwick is set in the 1970's a time before Facebook and cell phones. A time when what happened on the street stayed on the street. It is the story of a cop and the squad he worked with in the strangest precinct in New York City. Headquarters once advised a Captain who had been assigned as Commanding Officer that the 83 Precinct was a cross between a Foreign Legion Outpost and a leper colony.
This book follows Sean Quigley a cop in the 83 precinct for one year from New Year's Eve at Times Square to Brooklyn and back to Times Square. It is the fictional memoir of a fictional cop assigned to that precinct. You will meet the strange cops that inhabited that precinct, the nurses from a local hospital and those who lived in the confines of the command. They were he last of the cowboy cops.
The story covers the gamut of human emotion and experience. There is tragedy, horror, sex, violence, boredom and a good deal of comedy.