They are New York’s finest four-legged friends.
A new photo exhibit celebrates NYPD officers and their K9 partners who do the ruffian job of protecting our city.
dogs that serveThe exhibit, which opens March 13 at the AKC Canine Museum in Murray Hill, will feature NYPD K9s from five boroughs, all named after fallen officers from the NYPD, New York City, New York, and the U.S. military. It is named.
One of the images was taken on September 11, 2022, with Officer Andrew Regal holding his. K9 Argusnamed after Officer Joseph Piagentini’s dog, and Officer Donald Percival and K9 Petey, named after Officer Peter Figoski.
Two dogs, both black shepherds, sit above the entrance to the Wall Street subway station during the 9/11 memorial service.
“My first thought when I saw these two dogs sitting there was, ‘They’re really beautiful,'” photographer Margaret Foxmoor told the Post.
“They didn’t move. They were observing people with handbags. They took 30 to 40 pictures, and one picture is better than the next.”
Foxmoore, who took all the photographs in the exhibit, which will be on display until May 5, has received a letter from the New York City Police Department’s Department of Transportation Canine Unit to some of the Big Apple’s most heavily guarded events. Exclusive access was granted.
“When you get permission, you leave and then you just watch. You don’t really have to pose,” said Foxmoor, who has taken 300,000 photos of K9s in the city.
The New Jersey native has always loved photographing puppies around Manhattan, but she started working with K9s in 2018, when she was attending a Tartan Day parade when a German It started when I stopped and asked Officer Leonel Czech, who was with K9 Omar. Shepherd, named after Officer Omar Edwards, gives instructions.
“And he said, ‘Would you like to take a picture of us?'” she recalled.
Czech contacted John Pappas, then deputy commander of the NYPD’s Department of Transportation Canine Unit, who gave him permission to capture the dog.
Then she said, “I basically fit the K9 in between everything.”
Foxmoore now travels from her home in Brewster, New York, to Manhattan “in the middle of the night” to search for the dogs that currently guard locations such as St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Grand Central Terminal and the Times Square subway station. There is.
Last year, she compiled her collection into a book.dogs outside the ring” is on display at the Library of Congress.
She said the book’s cover features the most iconic shot she’s ever taken, a photo of Officer Justin Gelband and his men that is also on display in the exhibit. . K9 let, A German Shepherd Belgian Malinois named after Officer Sean McDonald at the 2019 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
In the image, Rhett attends an exhibition opening and focuses on the crowd, while a Snoopy balloon looms in the background.
“There’s peace and humor there,” she said.
She said the “heaviest” photo in the exhibit was one she took at the funeral procession for Officer Wilbert Mora, who was killed in 2022, where 173 K9s from across the country were gathered. .
“I still cry when I look at that photo,” she said.
In addition to the transportation department, Foxmoor also covers other K9 units such as counter-terrorism, emergency services units, bomb squads and harbor patrol.
She never edits police officers out of photos.
“Cops are a pair, so you can’t really cut them off,” she says. “They are bonded like husband and wife.”
