I am a bit of a fan of old-school NYPD cool: I've owned GPNYs and an SPNY, as well as such approved items as 642s and 3953s, natch. But my heart still belongs to the NY-1: S&W's answer to the NYPDs requests for medium framed, DAO service revolvers in .38 spec, and wearing bead blast finishes before they were cool. I had one of these in college (my only handgun at the time; I used it to take "top shot in class" honors at LFI-1 in the mid 90s), but sold it in a moment of weakness.
I therefore jumped at a chance to grab this one when it came up on GB; not only is it roughly the same era 4" 64 NY-1 as my old one, but this one has a rarer round butt, and more importantly, a duty action tune by Sand Burr's Denny Reichard. I couldn't be happier with the trigger, as this one is right up with the best I've had on an S&W--including my old Cylinder and Slide model 10. This thing is so glassy that I have to close my eyes and really concentrate to feel each aspect of the reset until the final two clicks at full forward return; as well, there is zero overtravel and a paucity of stacking feel.
In addition to the internal work, Denny chamfered each cylinder chamber with an *incredibly* subtle break; you can't really see it, but you can feel it in comparison to any stock K-frame (of which I have a few to compare) and it's all you need to keep those 158gr LSWCHPs from hanging up on the way in while speedloading on the clock, with nothing removed that you don't need gone. Perfect. As well, he countoured and polished the trigger in the way that only someone who is both a solid craftsman and a experienced trigger puller can do:
I'm digging it. Shoots well, too.