Ground was broken in Central Park yesterday on a multimillion-dollar restoration project that will convert the city’s oldest police precinct into one of its most advanced. The castle-like structure New Yorkers pass while crossing the park on the 86th Street transverse is the 22nd Precinct House, built in 1871. The building will undergo a $45 million transformation that will bring it into the 21st century, Mayor Bloomberg said at a ceremony

yesterday. The remodeled precinct house, slated to

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