Mount Vernon, Westchester County
Biohazard and crime scene cleanup in Mount Vernon
The number on this page reaches independent cleanup companies that take jobs in Mount Vernon, right down to the Bronx line. South of that line is New York City, which this service does not cover.
Phone answered at every hour, weekends and holidays included
The offices involved in Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Police
Headquarters is at 2 Roosevelt Square and the department's main number is 914-665-2500. For questions about an investigation, the city directory lists the Detective Division on 914-665-2510.
The medical examiner
Mount Vernon has no coroner of its own. A sudden or unexplained death here is handled by the county medical examiner in Valhalla, 914-231-1600, and the person is released from there to the funeral home.
Death certificates
Issued by the Registrar in the City Clerk's office for people who died within the city. The office takes requests online and asks for proof of your relationship. Its number is (914) 665-2356.
In a two- or three-family house
When the owner lives on one floor and rents out another, a death or an injury upstairs is everyone's problem within the hour. The front hall and the stairs are shared, and so is the air.
If you are the tenant's family, tell the owner the same day and agree who is calling the cleanup company. If you are the owner, you can make the call yourself for the hall and stairs, but the apartment and what is in it belong to the tenant or the estate, so get their agreement for anything inside it.
Tell the company whether the floors are bare wood, carpet over wood or sheet flooring. Fluids pass through old floorboards, and the ceiling below should be looked at on the same visit.
Mount Vernon questions
The apartment building is right on the Bronx border. Am I covered?
If the address is in Mount Vernon, call. If it is on the New York City side, the companies reached here do not normally take it, and you will be told so at once.
Does the city clean up after a crime in a public hallway?
No. Inside a private building that falls to the owner, including shared halls and stairs.
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.