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English translation: 76th Precinct House (New York)

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English term or phrase:	76th (in to the)
English translation:	76th Precinct House (New York)
Entered by:	Jenni Lukac

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13:48 Oct 1, 2009

English to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Other / New York

English term or phrase: 76th

We’ll start this again: I’ll run both of you in to the 76th, make you sweat in the holding cell next to the schwarzes and the Mexicans,” spits David, still not moving his hands. “How you like that?"

the action is set in New York, and David is a cop
do you suppose he is he talking about the 76th Precinct in Brooklyn?

zmejka KudoZ activity Questions: 1483 (none open) (7 closed without grading) Answers: 403 Russian Federation
Local time: 12:46

76th Precinct House

Explanation:
It makes the most sense since they mention cells.

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Note added at 7 mins (2009-10-01 13:56:01 GMT)
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Precinct is equivalent to district. If you are translating to Russian what is being referred to is the police station, commonly called "the precinct house" by New Yorkers.

Selected response from:

Jenni Lukac
Spain
Local time: 10:46

Grading comment

thank you for your help, everyone! special thanks to Gary D for his comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +5

76th Precinct House

Jenni Lukac

4 +3

Brooklyn's 76th Precinct

xxxsirgay

и я того же мнения :)

Eng-Rus/Rus-Eng

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

76th Precinct House

Jenni Lukac
Spain
Local time: 10:46
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 16

Grading comment

thank you for your help, everyone! special thanks to Gary D for his comment

5 mins confidence:

и я того же мнения :)

Explanation:
думаю да, тем более, что такой существует

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_076.sht...

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Yes, I agree :)

I think so, especially given that one exists...

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_076.sht...

Eng-Rus/Rus-Eng
United States
Native speaker of:

Russian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

disagree

Kim Metzger: This is an English monolingual question./We don't use foreign languages in English monolingual - that's the whole point of the language pair. Why would you expect participants in Eng-Eng questions to be able to read Russian?

8 mins

-> The whole point is to help the author of the question, not the participants. I know she speaks Russian, and all I did was to agree with the explanation she herself came up with. Hope this helps.

disagree

B D Finch: Answering in a language other than one specified for the question is impolite to other users and no use for glossary building. The first priority is to help the Asker, but this is a public, not a private forum and other participants should be respected.

2 hrs

-> Thank you for your input.

agree

Judith Hehir: You got it right.

8 hrs

-> Thank you, Judith!

agree

Gary D: just to bring you back to neutral :-) Life is too short to not be happy..

1 day13 hrs

-> :) very kind of you

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

76th Brooklyn's 76th Precinct

Explanation:
http://georgeweberthenewsguy.blogspot.com/2008/08/dead-in-76...

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and you can see what a holding cell looks like there...

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Note added at 9 hrs (2009-10-01 23:16:44 GMT)
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actually the word 'precinct' means both the district and the police station, they rarely say 'precinct house':

precinct |ˈpriːsɪŋ(k)t|
noun
1 a district of a city or town as defined for police purposes.
• the police station situated in such a subdivision : at the precinct, a desk sergeant ran through her ID.

xxxsirgay
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:46
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 4