Fabulous Firehouses become Homes and Businesses

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FP 7 - firehouse - 133 Norfolk St - (1907-1933)  - NYFP converted a 4 story tenament into FP 7's quarters



Currently is occupied by MassMarket, a visual fx boutique for branded media




NYFP firehouse:



 
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Good memories.....got out of the USMC in March '68 & got into the Fire Patrol in April '68 assigned to Patrol 3 stayed there until appointed to the FDNY in Sept '68.
 

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Woodside Ladder 3 - former firehouse  58-11 39th Avenue 

Currently a vacant church for sale:




Additional uses:
St Sebastian RC Church web site: "Masses were also offered in the Woodside volunteer Hook and Ladder Company #3 House on 39 Avenue, which later served as the American Legion Hall and is now a Korean church."

Additional from web site: "Of special note is the founding of the first fire company in Woodside, the Hook and Ladder Company in 1878, with William Cameron, a member of an old local family, as its first foreman. The firehouse bell, originally cast for an East River steamboat named the Sylvan Dell, became the church bell of the original St. Sebastian Church and now is proudly ensconced in front of the rectory."



http://stsebastianwoodside.org/history.htm

Woodside Ladder 3:



 
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Happy to see my grandfather's name listed on the fire report. Thanks for posting!!
 

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Engine 222 former firehouse 836 Quincy St  (1885-1913)


From "OUR FIREMEN : THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE BROOKLYN  FIRE  DEPARTMENT"

"ENGINE COMPANY NO. 22.
Located in one of the most aristocratic portions of the city of Brooklyn, the house occupied by Engine Company No. 22 on Quincy Street, near Patchen Avenue, in the Twenty-fifth Ward, is surrounded on all sides by handsome brownstone and frame private residences and first-class apartment houses. The company was organized on June 16, 1885, by Fire Commissioner Richard H. POILLON.  In the district covered by it on a first-alarm there are 64 boxes, which are distributed about in the territory lying between the city line on the north. Myrtle Avenue and Broadway on the east, Atlantic Avenue on the south and Stuyvesant Avenue on the west, in all about three miles square.  In this territory besides the hundreds of elegant private residences arc the House of the Good Shepherd, Lutheran Home for Aged Women, Warner Institute, Public Schools Nos. 26, 74 and 75, Bohannan's immense lock factory. Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, of which Rev. Father Mahoney is pastor, the Reid Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, and any number of smaller churches, DeKaIb Avenue car stables, Green and Gates Avenue car stables, Ebert's brewery and Eppigs brewery.  It is in this district that County Clerk COTTIER, School Trustee Ferns and George GLENDENNING, the leader of the Twenty-fifth Ward, reside. The majority of the men in the company have been in the service for many years and notwithstanding this fact they have fortunately escaped serious bodily harm and with but one exception have not been called upon to rescue a fellow being cut off by flame and smoke."                             
 

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L 16/Combination Engine 47/L 22/L22-2  former firehouse  766 Amsterdam Ave  (L 16 1876-1882/CEC 47 1882-1891/L 22 1891-1960/L 22-2 1900-1957)
Currently used by Brusco Realty Company:

L 16:

L 22 

L 22

 

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SI volunteer firehouse - Robinson Hose Company 9  528 Van Duzer St  - organized 1889


 
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mack said:
E 36/L 14/Bn 12/Bn 12-2  firehouse (1889-2003)




  R.I.P. Engine 36. I remember you as one of those very Busy Harlem Companies during the very busy War Years. I saw you working a lot of those jobs. Some Excellent Firefighters walked through those firehouse doors.
 

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How about 35 down on 119 St. The plan was to put 36 & 14 into the new house but that was changed!
 
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Atlas said:
How about 35 down on 119 St. The plan was to put 36 & 14 into the new house but that was changed!

Atlas, I have a few more for you,and the guys,  yrs ago the plans for firehouses were out and by the time the last decisions were made things changed like E36 & L14. here's a few more
1- E228 & L114 in area bounded by 2nd & 4th Ave between 40 St & 44 St.
    eventually was built with E 201 & L 114 approx  8 blocks to the south
2- E 5 & L 3 at Ave "A" and E. 13th St.  Never materialized
3- E 233 E252 L176 and the 37 or 44 Bn at the present location
4- New Firehouse at Flatlands Ave & Van Sicklen Aves for a single Engine
5- New firehouse for E 231 L120 44 Bn vicinity of Atlantic and E.N.Y. Ave
some of these are 30yrs old and more.
There are more but I'm getting old
 
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I think #4 included 232 along w/231/120/44.........also around the same time plans for combined FHs for 218 & 237 & another for 225/236......eliminating FHs seemed to be the intent then. 
 
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