Local contacts
Dobbs Ferry Police
At 112 Main Street. The non-emergency number is (914) 693-5500.
Village Clerk
The clerk's office issues certified copies of local death records. The clerk is also the village's Registrar of Vital Statistics.
Medical examiner
Not a village office. The Westchester County Medical Examiner takes sudden, violent and unexplained deaths from every municipality, Dobbs Ferry included.
An apartment above a shop or restaurant
Mixed buildings bring a second party into it: the business downstairs. If anything has come through its ceiling, or the smell has reached it, the business has to close that area to staff and customers until it is dealt with.
Its employees should not be the ones dealing with it. The federal bloodborne pathogens standard expects an employer to have a written plan, training and protective equipment in place before a worker handles blood, and a cafe or a hair salon will not.
The owner of the building is the person to coordinate. One cleanup company should look at both floors on one visit, and both insurers, the building's and the tenant's, should hear about it that day.
Dobbs Ferry questions
Are Ardsley and Irvington covered as well?
They are just past the towns listed on this site. Phone and give the address; you will be told immediately whether a company can take it.
We own the building and the shop tenant wants to reopen tomorrow. What do we tell them?
That the affected part stays shut until the cleanup company says it is finished. Ask the company for a realistic time before you promise the tenant one.
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.