Susan Leibowitz, her husband, David Yalovsky, and their son, Josh Yalovsky, 13, traveled from their home in Montreal last week to present a copy of a photograph to the Ninth Precinct that her late father had left behind. The photo is a composite of headshots of officers from the East Village precinct from the 1930s, including a photo of her father, Louis Leibowitz, as a young boy, at the bottom just right of center.
Louis Leibowitz was born in 1915 and lived in a tenement at 318 E. Fifth St., directly across from the precinct. He spent his childhood and youth running errands for the police. While a student at Seward Park High School, he also helped the police with paperwork.
He wanted to become an officer, but at 5 foot 7 inches tall, he was too short to meet the height requirements of the time.
He died last year at the age of 91. In later years, he pasted a more contemporary shot of himself in the upper left-hand corner of the old Ninth Precinct photo.
