A Virginia tourist was left in dire straits after being separated from her husband -- and feared for his life until two quick-thinking Brooklyn cops reunited the couple, authorities said.
She then sent them a heartfelt letter thanking them for their compassion.
The woman, identified just as Patricia P., planned to meet up with her husband at the Carroll Gardens apartment they had been staying at on Dec. 23. But when she got there, she began to fear the worst as she kept knocking and no one answered the door, authorities said.
Her phone was dead, and it was raining.
Officers Wilson and Serpani
“I was a bit shaken and afraid something tragic had occurred,” she said, in a letter posted on the NYPD Facebook page.
A good Samaritan called police, and Officers Wilson and Serpani from the 76th precinct, which covers Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Cobble Hill, rushed to her rescue.
They urged her to stand under a small overhang to avoid the rain and checked to see if there were lights on anywhere in the home, cops said. They were able to open the exterior door and knocked repeatedly on the inside door, offering to force it open if the woman wanted.
“I didn’t want them to do that,” she wrote. “So they offered to take me back to the police precinct where I could dry off and get warm.”
She left a note on the apartment door with the phone number for the precinct. She warmed up at the Union Avenue stationhouse and charged her cell phone, cops said.
When her husband called the precinct, the couple quickly realized they had had a misunderstanding about meeting up. The police drove Patricia back to Smith Street, where the two reunited.
She wrote that many people believe New Yorkers are tough and uncaring-- and that the experience changed her view of the city.
“In this case, nothing could be further from the truth,” she said. “I write this e-mail with much thanks for the caring attitude these officers displayed toward my situation, even though it wasn’t an emergency (thought it might have been) and their kindness and compassion towards me.”
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