1/28/22 Bronx All Hands Box 3570

[8060rock]

Address: 3016 Webster Ave.

Fire in 52 Police Pct. 3rd floor

Maybe,
E79, 48, 62, 88
L37, 56, 32F, 33 s/c
B27, 19
S61
R3
D7
RAC3

B27 gave All Hands, small fire 3rd floor, 1 L/S

BxD: E88 4th Engine, L32F

B27 requested extra Truck (L33)

D7: UC, duration 36 min.

E50 act. E48
E84 act. E?
L17 act. L33
L42 act. L37

 

[3511]

A few notes on this precinct building and the corresponding Box 3570...

Construction began on this precinct building in 1904, just after the completion of the nearby firehouse for Engine Company 79. Both were to serve the maturing neighborhoods of Bedford Park and Norwood. Embossed in the lime stone above the main entrance was the designation as the 41st Precinct of the NYPD. It was redesignated as the 52nd precinct a few decades later. It appears that only recently the members have placed the 52nd numbers over the original. The building is listed as both a National Historic Site and a New York City Landmark due to its unique architecture. It was built adjacent to the long gone spur of the Jerome Park Railway.

Box 3570 was physically located on the corner intersection of Webster Avenue and Botanical Square, just south of Mosholu Pkwy and across from the Frankie Frisch baseball field. (Hall of Famer Frisch, aka “The Fordham Flash”, grew up on nearby Perry Ave.)

The first alarm box assignment was traditionally

Es 79 48 88
Ls 37 38 BN15

This was the furthest north on Webster Ave that 88/38 responded and violated the usual rule of assigning the closest companies, as were 62/32. Due to the scarcity of FDNY units in the area northeast of Bronx Park, Mosholu Pkwy was designated by the Alarm Assignment Division as the Southern boundary of 62/32s response area. In fact, when motorized in 1918, L38 responded 2d due all the way to 204th St in Norwood while the ladder section of the combined company Engine 62 remained in quarters to cover the area. This all changed in the 1960s when the War Years hit and 88/38s’ response numbers went through the roof.

Just some local history to wile away the hours on a snowy January day.