Ending his shift at 12 59 a.m., Judge Murphy told court workers, "Good work, fellas, that's a wrap".
One day Mr. Meyerowitz watched a fireman nicknamed Toolie who was just ending his shift but could not stop working.
Because his brother was ending his shift and was technically off duty when the call came in, Mr. McAvoy said, it was likely he went on the taxi.
As he ended his shift on Tuesday at a gas station in Midtown Manhattan, Alderete Faustino, a New York City cabby for 25 years, squinted warily at the receipt that laid out his earnings for the day.
Just before midnight Thursday, the police said, Maurice Parks, 39, a subway motorman who had just ended his shift, was preyed upon by a group of muggers armed with at least one knife.
Mr. McGarity ended his shift at a nearby bar, then met a friend, Keith Masters, and Mr. Masters's girlfriend to search for a place to play pool, the police said.
Detective Spellman, who joined the force in July 1987 and was assigned to the Bronx Fugitive Task Force, ended his shift about midnight on Thursday after working two hours of overtime, the police said.
Officer Kelly had just ended his shift at 7 05 a.m. and was almost home when he heard that Officers Mayhle and Sciullo were responding to a domestic dispute nearby, said Deputy Chief Paul Donaldson, who wore a black band of mourning over his badge.
For the next 36 hours, she was moved from a cell in a Harlem precinct station house to central booking in Lower Manhattan and then — because one of the officers was ending his shift before Ms. Zucker could be photographed for her court appearance, and you didn't think he was going to take the subway uptown while his partner stayed with her at booking, did you?
