Ridge gets former resident as precinct commander
For Captain Robert Conwell, the newly arrived commanding officer at the 68th Precinct, his latest assignment in a long career is akin in many ways to coming home.
A Bensonhurst native, Conwell lived for nine years in Bay Ridge — which, with Dyker Heights and the Fort Hamilton area comprises the precinct’s catchment area — before moving a bridge away to Staten Island.
“I’m pretty familiar with the area and the feel of the community,” he shared during a sit-down in his office at the station house, 333 65th Street. Conwell replaces Deputy Inspector Joseph Hayward, who was transferred to the top post at the 60th Precinct in Coney Island on March 5.