Fabulous Firehouses become Homes and Businesses
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Then it was E54's house from 1884 to 1974. The bottom photo shows E2's next firehouse at 530 W. 43rd St where they were from 1870 to when they were disbanded in 1972. Rescue 1 was the next occupant until it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt.mack said:Engine 2 former firehouse - 304 W 47th St (1865-1870)
Thanks GMan - Tough to capture all uses of some of these old firehouses. Most were former volunteer company quarters. Then they transitioned to FDNY. Hose companies, chenical companies, suburban ladder companies and different battalions used these as quarters. It is great to see how many of these old firehouses remain.
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Yes, it was a temporary firehouse because E3's house at 417 W. 17th St. was torn down due to the NYCHA Chelsea Houses. An interesting point of info: L12 was located across the street at 243 W. 20th St. Back then, I visited those firehouses but didn't got to see them "turn-out" inside the same block from opposite sides of the street which would've been interesting to see.kidfrmqns said:mack said:E 3 former firehouse - 216 W 20th St (1960-1967)
Was this building used for something else prior to a firehouse since E-3 was only there for 7 years?
Engine 216 former firehouse (1893-1971) - original Bkyn FD Engine 16
http://nyfd.com/history/engine_216_history.html
Following early description probably describes their previous firehouse at Stagg St and Union Ave but gives flavor of era:
"ENGINE COMPANY NO. l6 TWENTY YEARS OF HARD WORK
Engine Company No. 16 occupies a house that was built nearly forty years
ago. It was first used as the quarters of Bucket Company No. 6, of the
Volunteer Department, which some years later was merged into Eagle Engine
Company No. 6, the latter company eventually being reorganized as Hose No.
6. The house is in a dilapidated condition, the sleeping apartment of the
men being the best part of it. The interior arrangement of the house is
different from that of any other company in the Department, in that the
horses' stalls are in the front of the house instead of the rear. The
team, " Bill," a very intelligent black horse, and " Jim/' a dark bay, stand
on either side of the engine, while " Joe," the tender horse, has a stall
right along side of the two- wheeler. The company was organized in Sept.,
1872, and by actual showing are called on to do more active duty than any
company in the Department. In 1891 the total number of runs was 216, while
up to June, 1892, they had responded to alarms from 106 boxes. They are
quick workers, their average time in getting out of the house after the
signal being five seconds. They are located in a very dangerous district
for fires, there being two houses on each lot, most of them frame tenements
three and four stories in height, and any number of large manufactories and
other buildings in which are stored materials which make hot work when once
the flames get a foothold. The district covered by this company on a
first-alarm is bounded on the north by North Second Street, and Union
Avenue; on the east by the Second bridge of Newtown Creek; on the south by
Park and Nostrand Avenue and on the west by South Eleventh and Berry
Streets. There are 84 boxes within these boundaries. On a second-alarm
they respond to calls from 188 boxes, which takes them anywhere from Classon
Avenue to Hunter's Point Bridge.
In their own district are Ketcham's tin factory, Schulz's bakeries, McKee's
refrigerator factory, Greenfield-s candy factory, Fallarfs brewery,
Williamsburg Brewing Company, Metropolitan Brewing Company, Otto Huber's
brewery, Abbotfs brewery, Burger's brewery, Sietz's brewery. New York and
Brooklyn ale brewery, Och's brewery', St Catherine's Hospital, Kalbfleish's
chemical works, Benzer's chemical works. Brookfield s glass works, Huber's
glass works. Herseman's bakery, Worn's furniture factory, Thomas shoe
factory, an electric light plant, Bossett's moulding mills. Hardy &
Voorhis' moulding mills, Reynolds- coal and wood yards, Waterbury rope-walk
Wan s rope-walk, Och's moulding mill, Peter Cooper's glue factory.
Valentine's varnish works, Dunlap's and several other large hat factories,
Lewis' wood matting factory Laurence rope-walk. Cable Wire Works, Harvey &
Pease's saw factory, silk weaving Mills, SMITH's shoe factory, Klofs lime
brick, coal and lumber yards, the Lyceum theatre, eleven public schools,
Nos. 18. 19, 21,23, 23, 36,43, 49, So, 69 and 71, GermanLutheran church.
South Third Street Methodist, Union Avenue Baptist, Zion African
E. church, Old Bushwick Dutch Reformed, St. Mary's Roman Catholic,
HolyTrinity, St. Nicholas Roman Catholic, and the Church of the Transfiguration.
Foreman THOMAS CLEARY was born in Dublin. Ireland, Aug. 24, 1856, and was
educated in that city. At the age of fourteen he came to this country and
worked at whatever his hands found to do until he was old enough to become a
railroad man. At this he continued until he was appointed a member of the
Fire Department on Jan 12. 1882. He was then assigned to Engine No. 17,
transferred to Engine No. 13 then to Engine No. 12, and while a member of
the latter was promoted to the grade of Assistant Foreman on March 1, 1887.
On June 1, 1891, he was advanced to the grade of Foreman and placed in
command of Engine No. 29 and afterward of this company.
In August, 1891, Mr. CLEARY assisted in the rescue of three persons who were
found unconscious on the top floor of a bakeshop and dwelling on Meeker
Avenue. Although he has been in many perilous positions since he became a
fireman he has fortunately escaped without injury.
Assistant Foreman JOHN O'BRIEN, like every man connected with the company
has seen some hard service to which at times great peril was attached. He
is one of the fortunate ones who in his fourteen years' connection with the
Department has escaped being injured. Mr. OBRIEN was born in Brooklyn on
Dec. 25, 1848, and was appointed to the uniformed force on Jan. 1, 1878.
His first duty was with Engine No 13. After his transfer to Engine No. 16
and on Feb. n, 1890, he was promoted to the grade of Assistant Foreman and
sent to Hook and Ladder Company No. 8, from which company he was transferred
to this company in 1891.
Driver WILLIAM C. BONNER was born in New York City, on Sept. 20, 1854, and
his appointment to the Brooklyn Fire Department dates from Sept. I, 1885.
Since that time he has done duty with Hook and Ladder Company No. 6 and
Engines Nos. 11, 18 and 16. At a fire in a dwelling-house on South Third
Street, he was sent through the house to open it up. On the top floor he
stumbled over a woman who had been overcome by the smoke and unaided carried
her down a ladder to the street, where she was brought back to
consciousness.
Engineer ANDREW TAYLOR was born in Birmingham, England, on Nov. 2, 1844.
He was an engineer in the Brooklyn Volunteer Department from 1865 till 1869
and was attached to Neptune Engine Company No. 7. He was appointed to the
new Department on Sept. 15, 1869, and was the first engineer of Engine No.
13, from which company he was transferred to this at the time of its
organization.
PHILIP ANDREW BAILEY was born in Brooklyn, on Sept. 16, 1858, and became a
member of the uniformed force on Dec. 15, 1885. He did his first fire duty
with Engine Company No. 15 and was transferred to Engine No. 24 at the time
of its organization. He was afterward transferred to Hook and Ladder
Company No. 4 and from that company to Engine No. 16. In 1888 at a fire in
a desk factory on Hopkins Street, Mr. BAILEY with Fireman MADOLE was left on
the third floor of the building with the pipe. The smoke was so dense that
the two men could not stand it longer and they began to grope their way
along to find the staircase. MADOLE crawled along the floor and after
reaching the stairs lost consciousness and rolled down. BAILEY followed
the line of hose and as he was crawling came in contact with a member of
Engine No. 9 who was lying across the hose unconscious. Fireman BAILEY,
although nearly exhausted himself, rolled his unconscious comrade along the
floor ahead of him to the stairway and that was the last he remembered until
he was picked up with the other two men at the foot of the stairs by members
of his own company who had come into the building to relieve them. In 1890
at the white lead factory fire on South Third Street, Fireman BAILEY
was standing on a ladder holding the pipe in one of the windows of the top
story. Suddenly the flames burst out from the windows of the floor below him
and enveloped his feet and legs. He was badly burned and was laid up for a
long time.
Stoker JOSEPH BRISCOE was born in Brooklyn, on July 10, 1846. He served in
the United States Navy on board the " Savannah " during the war, and was in
the Volunteer Fire Department for five years as a member of Northern
Liberties Engine No. 5. He was appointed a member of the uniformed force on
Sept. 20, 1872, and has done duty in Engine Companies Nos. 12, 15 and 16 and
Hook and Ladder No. 4.
WILLIAM HENRY McCORT was born in New York City, on March 24, 1852. He
has been a member of the Brooklyn Fire Department since Feb. 17, 1887, and
during that time has been connected with Engines Nos. n, 16 and 18. During
the fire in the flats on Nostrand Avenue he found a kitten in a burning
building and tenderly carried it to the street. At Palmer's cooperage fire
on May 29, 1887, he was about to step from a 35-foot ladder onto the roof
with a line of hose on his shoulder when he went over the side of the ladder
and fell three stories to the ground. His left arm was broken, his hip was
dislocated and he was otherwise so badly injured that he was not able to
perform active duty for seven months.
JOHN HINESON, besides being a very efficient member of the present Fire
Department, is a veteran of the Volunteer Department and also of the late
war. He was born in the town of Mill Creek, Penn., on Aug. 25, 1856.
During the war he was a member of the 56th N. Y. Volunteers. As a
volunteer fireman he ran with Red Jacket No. 1, formerly Red Jacket No. 10.
He was appointed to the uniformed force on June 5, 1880, and assigned to
duty with this company. From April, 1886, till November, 1890, he was
detailed as bell-ringer in the Fourteenth Ward tower.
THOMAS JOSEPH FLAHERTY was born in Bath, Maine, on Sept. 15, 1849, and has
been connected with the Brooklyn Department since Dec. 30, 1878, during
which time he has seen some hard service with Engines Nos. 6, 11, 22 and 16.
In the dark early morning of a bitter cold day in December. 1885, he was
precipitated down a half-burned hatchway to the cellar of a factory at South
Eighth Street and Kent Avenue. When he was picked up by his comrades he
was believed to be dead, but on his arrival at the hospital it was found
that his injuries were confined to the back and that no bones had been
broken. It was six months before Mr. FLAHERTY was able to go out and he was
then detailed to the Fourteenth Ward tower as bell-ringer, where he remained
for about three years.
THOMAS BOLAND was born in Brooklyn on March 11, 1866, and he has been a
fireman since July 20, 1890. He did his first fire duty with Engine
Company No. 20, and was transferred from that company to this in 1891. Mr.
BOLAND, although but two years in the service, has proved himself to be a
valuable acquisition to the force.
ABRAM L. TURNER was born in Middletown, Orange County, N. Y., on Nov. 27,
1866. He was following the occupation of saw-making when he received his
appointment to the Department on July 1, 1892.
There is another member of this company who performs duty but whose name
does not appear on the pay-roll at Headquarters. She is known as "Topsy,"
and is as black as the ace of spades. Nine years ago Fireman HINESON
brought " Topsy," then a kitten, into No. 16's house, and there she has
remained ever since. She is a very intelligent cat, and the men say she is
worth her weight in gold as a ratter.
In a list of big fires at which this company have performed many hours of
hard labor are the Havemeyer sugar house, Dick & Meyer's sugar house, the
Commercial Street sugar house, Pratt's oil works (three times), Kingsland
Avenue oil works (three times), Knickerbocker ice stables, Horseman's
bakery. Church's soda works. Palmer's cooperage, (twice), Heckler Iron
Works, (twice), Nostrand Avenue flat-houses, Harbeck stores, Watson's
stores, Ovington Brothers' crockery store, Hamburg Avenue flat-houses, the
Delmonico Place dwellings, color works on Tenth and Eleventh Streets,
Hubert's glass house, Wallabout Market (twice), Waterbury rope-walk. Wall's
rope-walk, Kalbfleisch'schemical works, Reubert's moulding mill, Solon's
moulding mill, Remsen's carriage factory, Warner Institute, also St. John's
Home, and the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor."
(from http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Fire/Bklyn/12.html)
http://nyfd.com/history/engine_216_history.html
Following early description probably describes their previous firehouse at Stagg St and Union Ave but gives flavor of era:
"ENGINE COMPANY NO. l6 TWENTY YEARS OF HARD WORK
Engine Company No. 16 occupies a house that was built nearly forty years
ago. It was first used as the quarters of Bucket Company No. 6, of the
Volunteer Department, which some years later was merged into Eagle Engine
Company No. 6, the latter company eventually being reorganized as Hose No.
6. The house is in a dilapidated condition, the sleeping apartment of the
men being the best part of it. The interior arrangement of the house is
different from that of any other company in the Department, in that the
horses' stalls are in the front of the house instead of the rear. The
team, " Bill," a very intelligent black horse, and " Jim/' a dark bay, stand
on either side of the engine, while " Joe," the tender horse, has a stall
right along side of the two- wheeler. The company was organized in Sept.,
1872, and by actual showing are called on to do more active duty than any
company in the Department. In 1891 the total number of runs was 216, while
up to June, 1892, they had responded to alarms from 106 boxes. They are
quick workers, their average time in getting out of the house after the
signal being five seconds. They are located in a very dangerous district
for fires, there being two houses on each lot, most of them frame tenements
three and four stories in height, and any number of large manufactories and
other buildings in which are stored materials which make hot work when once
the flames get a foothold. The district covered by this company on a
first-alarm is bounded on the north by North Second Street, and Union
Avenue; on the east by the Second bridge of Newtown Creek; on the south by
Park and Nostrand Avenue and on the west by South Eleventh and Berry
Streets. There are 84 boxes within these boundaries. On a second-alarm
they respond to calls from 188 boxes, which takes them anywhere from Classon
Avenue to Hunter's Point Bridge.
In their own district are Ketcham's tin factory, Schulz's bakeries, McKee's
refrigerator factory, Greenfield-s candy factory, Fallarfs brewery,
Williamsburg Brewing Company, Metropolitan Brewing Company, Otto Huber's
brewery, Abbotfs brewery, Burger's brewery, Sietz's brewery. New York and
Brooklyn ale brewery, Och's brewery', St Catherine's Hospital, Kalbfleish's
chemical works, Benzer's chemical works. Brookfield s glass works, Huber's
glass works. Herseman's bakery, Worn's furniture factory, Thomas shoe
factory, an electric light plant, Bossett's moulding mills. Hardy &
Voorhis' moulding mills, Reynolds- coal and wood yards, Waterbury rope-walk
Wan s rope-walk, Och's moulding mill, Peter Cooper's glue factory.
Valentine's varnish works, Dunlap's and several other large hat factories,
Lewis' wood matting factory Laurence rope-walk. Cable Wire Works, Harvey &
Pease's saw factory, silk weaving Mills, SMITH's shoe factory, Klofs lime
brick, coal and lumber yards, the Lyceum theatre, eleven public schools,
Nos. 18. 19, 21,23, 23, 36,43, 49, So, 69 and 71, GermanLutheran church.
South Third Street Methodist, Union Avenue Baptist, Zion African
E. church, Old Bushwick Dutch Reformed, St. Mary's Roman Catholic,
HolyTrinity, St. Nicholas Roman Catholic, and the Church of the Transfiguration.
Foreman THOMAS CLEARY was born in Dublin. Ireland, Aug. 24, 1856, and was
educated in that city. At the age of fourteen he came to this country and
worked at whatever his hands found to do until he was old enough to become a
railroad man. At this he continued until he was appointed a member of the
Fire Department on Jan 12. 1882. He was then assigned to Engine No. 17,
transferred to Engine No. 13 then to Engine No. 12, and while a member of
the latter was promoted to the grade of Assistant Foreman on March 1, 1887.
On June 1, 1891, he was advanced to the grade of Foreman and placed in
command of Engine No. 29 and afterward of this company.
In August, 1891, Mr. CLEARY assisted in the rescue of three persons who were
found unconscious on the top floor of a bakeshop and dwelling on Meeker
Avenue. Although he has been in many perilous positions since he became a
fireman he has fortunately escaped without injury.
Assistant Foreman JOHN O'BRIEN, like every man connected with the company
has seen some hard service to which at times great peril was attached. He
is one of the fortunate ones who in his fourteen years' connection with the
Department has escaped being injured. Mr. OBRIEN was born in Brooklyn on
Dec. 25, 1848, and was appointed to the uniformed force on Jan. 1, 1878.
His first duty was with Engine No 13. After his transfer to Engine No. 16
and on Feb. n, 1890, he was promoted to the grade of Assistant Foreman and
sent to Hook and Ladder Company No. 8, from which company he was transferred
to this company in 1891.
Driver WILLIAM C. BONNER was born in New York City, on Sept. 20, 1854, and
his appointment to the Brooklyn Fire Department dates from Sept. I, 1885.
Since that time he has done duty with Hook and Ladder Company No. 6 and
Engines Nos. 11, 18 and 16. At a fire in a dwelling-house on South Third
Street, he was sent through the house to open it up. On the top floor he
stumbled over a woman who had been overcome by the smoke and unaided carried
her down a ladder to the street, where she was brought back to
consciousness.
Engineer ANDREW TAYLOR was born in Birmingham, England, on Nov. 2, 1844.
He was an engineer in the Brooklyn Volunteer Department from 1865 till 1869
and was attached to Neptune Engine Company No. 7. He was appointed to the
new Department on Sept. 15, 1869, and was the first engineer of Engine No.
13, from which company he was transferred to this at the time of its
organization.
PHILIP ANDREW BAILEY was born in Brooklyn, on Sept. 16, 1858, and became a
member of the uniformed force on Dec. 15, 1885. He did his first fire duty
with Engine Company No. 15 and was transferred to Engine No. 24 at the time
of its organization. He was afterward transferred to Hook and Ladder
Company No. 4 and from that company to Engine No. 16. In 1888 at a fire in
a desk factory on Hopkins Street, Mr. BAILEY with Fireman MADOLE was left on
the third floor of the building with the pipe. The smoke was so dense that
the two men could not stand it longer and they began to grope their way
along to find the staircase. MADOLE crawled along the floor and after
reaching the stairs lost consciousness and rolled down. BAILEY followed
the line of hose and as he was crawling came in contact with a member of
Engine No. 9 who was lying across the hose unconscious. Fireman BAILEY,
although nearly exhausted himself, rolled his unconscious comrade along the
floor ahead of him to the stairway and that was the last he remembered until
he was picked up with the other two men at the foot of the stairs by members
of his own company who had come into the building to relieve them. In 1890
at the white lead factory fire on South Third Street, Fireman BAILEY
was standing on a ladder holding the pipe in one of the windows of the top
story. Suddenly the flames burst out from the windows of the floor below him
and enveloped his feet and legs. He was badly burned and was laid up for a
long time.
Stoker JOSEPH BRISCOE was born in Brooklyn, on July 10, 1846. He served in
the United States Navy on board the " Savannah " during the war, and was in
the Volunteer Fire Department for five years as a member of Northern
Liberties Engine No. 5. He was appointed a member of the uniformed force on
Sept. 20, 1872, and has done duty in Engine Companies Nos. 12, 15 and 16 and
Hook and Ladder No. 4.
WILLIAM HENRY McCORT was born in New York City, on March 24, 1852. He
has been a member of the Brooklyn Fire Department since Feb. 17, 1887, and
during that time has been connected with Engines Nos. n, 16 and 18. During
the fire in the flats on Nostrand Avenue he found a kitten in a burning
building and tenderly carried it to the street. At Palmer's cooperage fire
on May 29, 1887, he was about to step from a 35-foot ladder onto the roof
with a line of hose on his shoulder when he went over the side of the ladder
and fell three stories to the ground. His left arm was broken, his hip was
dislocated and he was otherwise so badly injured that he was not able to
perform active duty for seven months.
JOHN HINESON, besides being a very efficient member of the present Fire
Department, is a veteran of the Volunteer Department and also of the late
war. He was born in the town of Mill Creek, Penn., on Aug. 25, 1856.
During the war he was a member of the 56th N. Y. Volunteers. As a
volunteer fireman he ran with Red Jacket No. 1, formerly Red Jacket No. 10.
He was appointed to the uniformed force on June 5, 1880, and assigned to
duty with this company. From April, 1886, till November, 1890, he was
detailed as bell-ringer in the Fourteenth Ward tower.
THOMAS JOSEPH FLAHERTY was born in Bath, Maine, on Sept. 15, 1849, and has
been connected with the Brooklyn Department since Dec. 30, 1878, during
which time he has seen some hard service with Engines Nos. 6, 11, 22 and 16.
In the dark early morning of a bitter cold day in December. 1885, he was
precipitated down a half-burned hatchway to the cellar of a factory at South
Eighth Street and Kent Avenue. When he was picked up by his comrades he
was believed to be dead, but on his arrival at the hospital it was found
that his injuries were confined to the back and that no bones had been
broken. It was six months before Mr. FLAHERTY was able to go out and he was
then detailed to the Fourteenth Ward tower as bell-ringer, where he remained
for about three years.
THOMAS BOLAND was born in Brooklyn on March 11, 1866, and he has been a
fireman since July 20, 1890. He did his first fire duty with Engine
Company No. 20, and was transferred from that company to this in 1891. Mr.
BOLAND, although but two years in the service, has proved himself to be a
valuable acquisition to the force.
ABRAM L. TURNER was born in Middletown, Orange County, N. Y., on Nov. 27,
1866. He was following the occupation of saw-making when he received his
appointment to the Department on July 1, 1892.
There is another member of this company who performs duty but whose name
does not appear on the pay-roll at Headquarters. She is known as "Topsy,"
and is as black as the ace of spades. Nine years ago Fireman HINESON
brought " Topsy," then a kitten, into No. 16's house, and there she has
remained ever since. She is a very intelligent cat, and the men say she is
worth her weight in gold as a ratter.
In a list of big fires at which this company have performed many hours of
hard labor are the Havemeyer sugar house, Dick & Meyer's sugar house, the
Commercial Street sugar house, Pratt's oil works (three times), Kingsland
Avenue oil works (three times), Knickerbocker ice stables, Horseman's
bakery. Church's soda works. Palmer's cooperage, (twice), Heckler Iron
Works, (twice), Nostrand Avenue flat-houses, Harbeck stores, Watson's
stores, Ovington Brothers' crockery store, Hamburg Avenue flat-houses, the
Delmonico Place dwellings, color works on Tenth and Eleventh Streets,
Hubert's glass house, Wallabout Market (twice), Waterbury rope-walk. Wall's
rope-walk, Kalbfleisch'schemical works, Reubert's moulding mill, Solon's
moulding mill, Remsen's carriage factory, Warner Institute, also St. John's
Home, and the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor."
(from http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Fire/Bklyn/12.html)
I guess I'm somewhat partial towards the Old Firehouses after viewing these pictures. To me, nothing better than to walk into those old firehouses. Seeing that old red firehouse door, hearing the bells ringing from the outside, walk in, see that rig squeezed into those small doors, smell the smoke odor, see the old watchdesk, and those old metal stairs.
Just something about it for me. I think maybe for me its just the Old Neighborhood Firehouse and it represents the FDNY.
So I appreciate the pictures and stories on here.
Just something about it for me. I think maybe for me its just the Old Neighborhood Firehouse and it represents the FDNY.
So I appreciate the pictures and stories on here.
Ladder 114 - former firehouse - 5209 5th Ave - Bay Ridge - established 1897
http://nyfd.com/history/ladder_114_1.html
http://nyfd.com/history/ladder_114_1.html
Engine 203 and Bn 32 former firehouse - 533 Hicks St Carroll Gardens (E 203 1913-1974/Bn 32 - various dates ) - originally Engine 3 and District Engineer 12 BFD
Current real estate description - "Spectacular PH triplex in converted Firehouse. First floor features enormous living/dining room with oversized windows looking at the harbor. Exposed brick walls, 20? ceilings, wood burning fireplace, open kitchen and oak floors. Staircase with brass railings to the second floor master bedroom with bath ensuite and glorious deck. Laundry facility. Two additional bedrooms and full bath on the top level. Private roof deck terrace with full view of Manhattan skyline. Great storage. Parking available for $300/mo additional." Great BQE view!
Current real estate description - "Spectacular PH triplex in converted Firehouse. First floor features enormous living/dining room with oversized windows looking at the harbor. Exposed brick walls, 20? ceilings, wood burning fireplace, open kitchen and oak floors. Staircase with brass railings to the second floor master bedroom with bath ensuite and glorious deck. Laundry facility. Two additional bedrooms and full bath on the top level. Private roof deck terrace with full view of Manhattan skyline. Great storage. Parking available for $300/mo additional." Great BQE view!
Engine 77 became Marine Co 7 - former quarters - Foot of Fulton St Bklyn (1931-1970)
http://marine1fdny.com/fireboat_history_new.php
http://marine1fdny.com/fireboat_history_new.php
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I think i related this story before....when 203 closed a guy w/a company that removed bird nests & such from steeples & other high places bought the FH....he had a surplus tiller rig that he kept in the FH...he re- lettered the area over the door w/the name of his company in traditional FH lettering complete w/the green patina .....it read "BYE BYE BIRDIE"......you could see the front from the depressed BQE which ran in front.
Chief - I am trying to finish out all the former firehouses I can find still existing in the city for this thread. Would you know if the brick building in the center of this picture is the former quarters of Marine Co 8, foot of 52nd St. It should have been built 1962 and occupied until 1970 when Marine 8 was disbanded.
Note - disregard this structure as probable quarters of Marine 8 - per Atlas posting later in thread.
Note - disregard this structure as probable quarters of Marine 8 - per Atlas posting later in thread.
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Mack,
How about this firehouse?
http://nycfire.net/forums/index.php?action=post;topic=10759.105;last_msg=51815
kfd274
How about this firehouse?
http://nycfire.net/forums/index.php?action=post;topic=10759.105;last_msg=51815
kfd274
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