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Does that central structure on the apparatus floor and second floor (also seen in the berman site photos)  house an elevator?

Your Second aerial photo of Ebbets Field, looking westward toward Flatbush Avenue and Prospect Park shows the FDNY Brooklyn Central  Office [Dispatchers] at Washington Avenue and Empire Blvd, upper left.  RIP. The powers-that-be have deemed it practical to close down our individual Borough...

This should be E287-2 at former Gooderson Volunteer Engine 2 at Thomson & Fisk Aves, later renamed to Queens Blvd & 69th Street. Rig looks to be a 1912-1913 Mack-Boyd wagon.

Haven't seen mention of E287-2 becoming E292 c1913-1918.  E287 and E287-2 were in different houses at the time.

Also notable, fireboat Engine Company numbers E85 and E232, were later re-used by Land Engine Companies, both housed in Tin Houses, and later disbanded in Bronx and Brooklyn.  Engines 43 and 66 were also fireboat numbers later used by Bronx land companies.

Loftus Suction Collector stored on running board just behind rear fender. CD45 195? Ward LaFrance pumper.

Article on Loftus Suction Collector in WNYF April 1951. (the E53 photo is not from the article)

There was also a serious incident with the Long Island/later Buckeye Pipeline on Staten Island, probably late 1970s, or 1980s,  It was in a new construction area near Victory Blvd approx. E166 district when contractors dug into the pipeline.  There was no ignition, but I understand a "geyser" of...

Thorough information on this building, and its uses other than by FDNY, can be found in The Last Alarm by Mike Boucher, Gary Urbanowicz, and Fred Melhan published in 2006, page 132.

The September 1934 issue of Fire Lines lists the companies that responded to Baltimore as: Engines 5 7 12 13 16 26 27 31 33 and Truck 5. A table in the article also indicates each companies' arrival time, hours worked, hose used, number of men, and the Company Commander. Other Fire Department's...

Rescue 3 moved from Manhattan to the Bronx in the early 1990s, and THAT wasn't on the Dep't Orders for a couple years.

From WNYF 2nd/1952 For historical purposes only, not recommended to try on a contemporary apparatus.

From Fire Engineering, 1941

From Fire Engineering 1930

There is a Two-bay transit building at 225 W53 that really looks like an early 20thC firehouse, look it up

The original 1970 Seagrave rearmounts were delivered with two red strobe lights atop the cab rather than the rotating beacons that were standard.  I believe all strobes were replaced within a year or two.  Not sure what the reason was but the story going around at the time was that the strobes...

Yes, that is an original Mack Satellite, the other Mack C facing the camera may be an Engine or Tower Ladder 1 (not clear enough to tell). As for supply, there is large diameter hose as the Satellites carried, may have been supplied by pumper(s) feeding a manifold or Super Pumper.  In those...

from the 1929 HYDE Atlas, Volume 1, Plate 106

As mentioned in previous post, here is a segment of the 1929 HYDE Atlas, (Vol. 4, Plate 204) of the area spoken of.  A couple blocks west of West 21st Street were burned in a Borough Call in the summer of 1932.

Old maps and atlasses (like Sanborns) are great for placing and dating  old photos, as are reference books and the www; but the best tool often not credited is one's memory.