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Offline mack

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FDNY Firehouses
« on: February 12, 2012, 01:34:38 PM »
Many firehouses and berths served as quarters for FDNY, Brooklyn FD, Long Island City FD, federal and volunteer companies. 
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FDNY Firehouses
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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2012, 01:40:17 PM »
Engine 10-Ladder 15 - former firehouse - 73 Water Street  (1931-1962)

Dedication 1931:





Engine 10


Ladder 15




Modernized quarters


Water St today


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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2012, 02:17:43 PM »
Engine 244  (also Ladder 161) - former firehouse - 2929 W 15 St   Coney Island  (Engine 244 1896-1968/L 161 1968)


Newspaper picture when designated E 144 (later became E 244)




W 15th St parking lot today
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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2012, 02:54:06 PM »
Directly behind 10 & 15's quarters is the 1st Precinct building which I believe still stands and is the NYPD museum. Did anyone notice the chain across the apparatus doors on the fire house? I wonder what that was for?
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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2012, 03:27:02 PM »
Chain was to keep out buffs.
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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2012, 03:36:28 PM »
Engine 86 (Marine)/Marine 2/Marine 3/Marine 1 -  Pier 53 - Ft of Bloomfield St Hudson River - Former quarters/berth
  (Engine 86 (Marine) 1933-1959/Marine 2 1959-1991/Marine 3 1961/Marine 1/1992-2008)   

1940s



Fireboat McKean



Today
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/events/2011/101411a.shtml

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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2012, 03:55:29 PM »
Hose 7/Engine 159/Ladder 81 - former firehouse - 1592 Richmond Road  Dongan Hills SI  (Hose 7 1912-1913/Engine 159 1913-1930/Ladder 81 1915-1930)




Site of current quarters of Engine 159, Satellite 5 (built 1930)

E 159 100 years:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/events/2012/060112a.shtml

http://fdnytrucks.com/files/html/statenisland/e159.htm
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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2012, 08:22:38 PM »
Many FHs had the chain ...if you look at the sides of some doors you can see marks where it was fastened about waist high.........i had worked a few tours in Marine 2 when i was a LT......the whole bldg creaked & rocked....it was like a bldg on the water in the Orient. 
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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2012, 08:35:21 PM »
Engine 245, Engine 245-2, Engine 326, Ladder 161, Bn 43  2929 W 8th St  Coney Island - former firehouse - (E 245 1904-1968/E 245-2 1904-1939/Eng 326 1939-1952/Ladder 161 1927-1968/Bn 43 1906-1968) - original Brooklyn Fire Department firehouse














Former firehouse razed to build current quarters (1971)





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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2012, 09:26:54 PM »
Engine 245 original firehouse - 2919 W 8th St  Coney Island  (1895-1904)  Brooklyn Fire Dept Engine 45  - former volunteer firehouse

Original volunteer quarters are left of former BFD firehouse built in 1904.

Atlantic Hose 1, and Atlantic Hook & Ladder 1 were established in 1886 the two story firehouse at 2919 W. 8th Street.
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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2012, 08:31:17 PM »
Combintion Engine Company/Eng 52/Ladder 52 - original firehouse  4550 Riverdale Ave (CEC 52 1884-1928/Eng 52 1928-1939/Ladder 52 1928-1939) -  probable original firehouse of Neptune Engine 3




Current firehouse built 1939:
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Current quarters:



 


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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2012, 08:49:34 PM »
SI Volunteer Company - Defender H&L 7 - 1721 Victory Blvd  Castleton Corners - organized 1900

Firehouse in 1916:


Today - bank parking lot:

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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2012, 09:10:49 PM »
Engine 87 (Marine) firehouse - Park Avenue and East 135th Street - NY Public Library  picture
(Thanks to Gman identification of FDNY unit)

1935:

Today:


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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2012, 09:29:25 PM »
Quote from: mack on February 15, 2012, 09:10:49 PM
Unknown company firehouse - Park Avenue and East 135th Street - Library of Congress picture

1935:

  That was Engine 87 fireboat firehouse at 135th St. & Harlem River under N.Y. Central R.R. drawbridge before the East River Drive was constructed
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Re: FDNY Firehouses Gone
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2012, 09:40:00 PM »
Engine 57 (Marine) Castle Garden berth (Eng 57 1981-1895)

Castle Garden - originally a fort built during War of 1812 at tip of Manhattan to protect city; became immigation center for NYC from 1820-1892 (11 million immigrants entered city here); replaced by Ellis Island as NYC immigrantion center.  http://www.castlegarden.org/









Berth for The New Yorker: "THE NEW YORKER was constructed by Julius Jonson, New York, from plans by Charles H. Haswell. With a pumping capacity of 13,000 gpm, she was for many years the most powerful of fireboats. She was the first New York fireboat with a shore station and its house at the Battery became a land­mark as famous as the boat itself. When THE NEW YORKER was ready, Engine Co. 57 was organized and the boat placed in service on February 1, 1891. News articles of the day gave much space to descriptions of the boat and its architecturally distinctive sta­tion near Castle Garden. " - Marine 1 site
The New Yorker:


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