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Knickerbocker Road, Tenafly, NJ

911 Hang-Up Brings SWAT Team To Tenafly Neighborhood 911 Hang-Up Brings SWAT Team To Tenafly Neighborhood
911 Hang-Up Brings SWAT Team To Tenafly Neighborhood Police in Tenafly had no idea what they were dealing with after receiving a hang-up 911 call from a local home around 9 p.m. Friday. When the emergency operator didn't get a response to a callback, police went to the Day Avenue home off Knickerbocker Road to check. The officers could see and hear people moving inside, so they knocked on the door, Police Chief Robert Chamberlain said. There was no answer, he said. Police repeatedly called the home and used their public address system asking to speak with the occupants to check on their welfare, the chief said. After 90 minutes or so witho…
Horrific Crash Kills Tenafly Driver, 19, Injures Three Others Horrific Crash Kills Tenafly Driver, 19, Injures Three Others
Horrific Crash Kills Tenafly Driver, 19, Injures Three Others A 19-year-old Tenafly driver was killed and three passengers were injured -- one critically -- when a sedan slammed into a tree, authorities said. An injured passenger flagged down a police car following the 10 p.m. crash Saturday on Knickerbocker Road at the corner of Columbus Drive, Tenafly Police Chief Robert Chamberlain said Firefighters cut the roof off to free a 32-year-old Bayonne woman sitting in the front seat. She and the two back-seat passengers – a Cresskill woman and Bergenfield man, both 20 – were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, the chief told Daily Voice. Th…
WHOOPS: Ex-Con From Teaneck Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Mistakes Tenafly Police Car For Uber WHOOPS: Ex-Con From Teaneck Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Mistakes Tenafly Police Car For Uber
Whoops: Ex-Con From Teaneck Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Mistakes Tenafly Police Car For Uber A Teaneck ex-con who ran off after crashing a stolen car near the Englewood border in Tenafly was about to hop into what he thought was an Uber – but was actually a police car, authorities said. Officer Manuel Fidel was searching the area of West Hudson Avenue in Englewood following the 5:22 p.m. crash Wednesday on Knickerbocker Road when an out-of-breath Michael D. Lockett approached his cruiser, Tenafly Police Chief Robert Chamberlain said. “Upon reaching the patrol car, [Lockett] said he thought it was his Uber,” the chief said. Realizing his mistake, the 28-year-old parolee began tippi…