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Ridgewood cops removes 20,000 bees from a tree

104th Precinct bees
Photo via Twitter/@NYPD104Pct

The 104th Precinct was creating a real buzz around Ridgewood on Monday morning.

In the city’s first bee swarm call of the year, the 104th Precinct helped remove nearly 20,000 bees from a tree at Grandview and Greene avenues, with the help of the NYPD Bees unit.

“We had the prestige of being the first precinct this year to have a bee job,” said Captain Mark Wachter, 104th Precinct commanding officer, at the precinct community council meeting on Tuesday night in Maspeth. “We have our own beekeeper. We actually have one of the beekeepers working for me at the precinct.”