Albert Seedman
Albert A. Seedman, , was an officer with the New York City Police Department foryears. At the end of his career he was the departments chief of detectives, the only Jewish officer to ever hold that position. After his retirement he was the chief of security for a New York area department store chain before retiring to South Florida.
Seedman was born to a taxi driver and his wife, a sewing machine operator in the Garment District, on Fox Street, near St. Marys Park in the South Bronx in 1918. He was given no middle name, just the initial A. In school he served as a stairwell monitor, which he said later gave him the idea to become a police officer.
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