Village offices to know
Police desk
The Bronxville Police Department is reached on 914-337-0500. Use it for questions about a report or about when a home may be cleaned. For anything urgent, 911.
Registrar of Vital Statistics
The village registrar keeps records of deaths that happened inside the village boundaries and at NewYork-Presbyterian/Lawrence Hospital. So if a relative from Yonkers or Tuckahoe died at that hospital, the certificate is ordered from Bronxville, on 914-337-6500.
Bronxville on the envelope, somewhere else on the map
Plenty of homes with a Bronxville postal address are in Yonkers or in the Town of Eastchester. It makes no difference to the cleanup, but it changes whose police came and whose clerk holds the record. If you are not sure, look at the patch on the officer's sleeve or the lettering on the car.
One thing does not change with the border. Every unexplained death in the county goes to the medical examiner in Valhalla, and families deal with that office through their funeral director.
If the apartment is a co-op
Phone the managing agent
Before the cleanup company, or straight after. The agent knows the house rules for contractors and can warn the super.
Read the alteration rules
If flooring or plaster has to come out, some boards treat that as an alteration that needs sign-off. Ask what can be waived in an emergency.
Tell your own insurer and ask about the building's
Your policy covers the inside of the unit. The corporation's covers halls, risers and the structure between floors.
Then bring the company in
Pass on what the agent told you about entrances, the elevator and working hours.
Bronxville questions
We are selling the apartment. Do we have to mention this?
That is a question for your attorney or broker. Keep the cleanup invoice in any case; it is the record that the work was done properly.
Can a company come the same day?
It depends on their workload, so ask. The phone is answered whenever you call.
Once the police hand the home back, phone
The person who answers works for an independent cleanup firm active in and around Yonkers. Put any question to them. Whether to hire them is up to you.
Phone answered at every hour, weekends and holidays included
Calls can be recorded. How that works: privacy, and how this service is paid.