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raybrag said:
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I didn't realize that steamers lasted into the 1930's.  Does anyone know when the last one was taken out of service?  Was it E31?
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Answered my own question, courtesy of the NYC Fire Museum's web site.  The last steam pumping engine to see service in FDNY was retired in 1933 after service with E93, E5, E268 and finally on Welfare Island.  It was a 1912 American LaFrance Second Size steam pumping engine, registration #3384.  It was originally horse drawn, then powered with a Christie tractor, and then with a Van Blerck tractor.  It originally entered service on March 20, 1913.  It resides in the museum today.  Here's a link to it:

http://nycfiremuseum.pastperfect-online.com/32553cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=40F622F8-D8A0-4B68-AA9D-707929209694;type=101

As an aside, the last horse drawn FDNY pumper went out of service in December, 1922.
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As noted by Ray, last run by FDNY horse-drawn pumper was Engine 205:


 
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Ladder 108/Bn 35  firehouse    112 Seigel St  East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

112 Siegel St 1960s:


Ladder 108 Runs and Workers 1944-2012:

Year Ladder Runs EMS Workers OSW ALL HANDS
1944 108      926            354
1947 108      967            711
1950 108    1166            861
1953 108    1363            967
1954 108    1335          1026
1956 108    1315          1000
1960 108    1845          1116
1962 108    2234          1190
1964 108    2709          1216
1966 108    3607          1512
1969 108    5443          3604
1970 108    6037          4239
1971 108    6145          4307
1975 108    4450          3277   
1976 108    4703          3310     
1977 108    3949          3582 
1978 108    3804          2530 
1979 108    4233          2717 
1980 108    4742          3090 
1981 108    4456          3015 
1982 108    4508          2971 
1983 108    4462          3073    508 
1984 108    4026          2765 
1985 108    3726          2598    474 
1986 108    3718          2664    448 
1987 108    4018          2904    386 
1988 108    3920          2913    392 
1989 108    4188          3252    407 
1990 108    4198          3173    405 
1991 108    4041          3066    402 
1992 108    4038          3198    429 
1993 108    4361          3595    435 
1994 108    4020          3330    551 
1995 108    3763          2136    518 
1996 108    3304  70  2739    533 
1997 108    3010 198  2529    526 
1998 108    2793  63  2382    508 
1999 108    2835  38  2415    444 
2000 108    2779  29  2299    430 
2001 108    2696    0  2244    457 
2002 108    2635    0  2152    435 
2003 108    2801    0  2296    430 
2004 108    2778    0  2245    452 
2005 108    2778    0  2245    447 
2006 108    2637    0  2236    439 
2007 108    2918    0  1668    405 
2008 108    2726    0  2324    464 
2009 108    2954    0  2626    430 
2010 108    2947    0  2523    464  67
2011 108    2942    0  2513    407 107
2012 108    2941    0  2693    404  52
Thanks Frank Raffa and WNYF
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Ladder 108 as well as several other engine and truck companies consist R&W leaders:

R&W 1941:


R&W1942:

 
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Engine 319/Bn 59 - firehouse - 78-11 67th Rd  Middle Village, Queens

    Engine 319 was established October 15, 1930, Special Order # 180
    Engine 319 was placed in service October 18, 1930
       
    Battalion 59 organized 111-36 Merrick Blvd at Engine 275  1970
    Battalion 59 disbanded                                                    1975
    Battalion 59 reorganized 78-11 67th Rd at Engine 319        1984
    Battalion 59 disbanded                                                    1989
 
Engine 319 dedication ceremony October 18, 1930 :







Dedication parade 1930:






78-11 67th Rd firehouse:









Engine 319:








Engine 319 apparatus as follows:

10-18-30 to 12-25-30  1921 American LaFrance 700 GPM.    Reg # 3576

12-25-30 to 9-19-51    1930 Mack Bulldog 700 GPM.    Reg # 1004

9-19-51 to 11-14-68    1951 Ward LaFrance  750 GPM.    Reg # 2594

11-14-68 to 4-19-71    1963 International Harvester.  1000. GPM.    Reg #. 2-10ST

4-19-71 to  10-10-72.  1958 Mack  1000 GPM.    Reg # 1023

10-10-72 to 8-11-75.    1969 Mack.  1000 GPM.  Reg #. MP 6923

8-11-75 to 2-20-81.      1972 Mack.  Rapid Water. 1000 GPM.  Reg# MP 7212

2-20-81 to 3-13-93.      1980 American LaFrance  1000 GPM.  Reg # AP 8029

3-13-93 to 5-16-2003.  1993 Seagrave.  1000 GPM      Reg # SP 9326

5-16-03 to present.      2003 Seagrave.  1000 GPM.    Reg #. SP 03001

TBD 2004                    2014 KME 

(Apparatus thanks to Aux War Years Captain)


E 319 LODD - Fireman Daniel Sullivan - died 9-11-54 as a result of injuries received responding to Box 5-7-5109 on 9-11-54 RIP




Pre-FDNY volunteer fire companies:
http://www.junipercivic.com/juniperberryarticle.asp?nid=1282

Fearless Ladder 7 in front of Metropolitan Ave firehouse:


Middle Village, Queens:
http://forgotten-ny.com/2007/04/forgottentour-28-juniper-valley-middle-village-queens/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Village,_Queens

http://www.junipercivic.com/HistoryArticle.asp?nid=53


 
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Engine 254/Ladder 153  firehouse    901 Avenue U    Gravesend, Brooklyn

    Engine 54 BFD organized 56 Gravesend Neck Rd in former volunteer quarters      1895
    Engine 54 BFD became Engine 54 FDNY                                                            1895
    Engine 54 became Engine 154                                                                          1899
    Engine 154 became Engine 254                                                                        1913
    Engine 254 moved to new firehouse 901 Avenue U                                            1924

    Ladder 153 organized 901 Avenue U at Engine 254                                            1925


901 Avenue U firehouse:












Engine 254:





Engine 254 operates at SI 6 alarm brush fire:


Ladder 153:






August 2, 1978 - Waldbaums Fire -  RIP:

    FF George Rice Ladder 153
    FF James McManus Ladder 153
    Lt. James Cutillo 33 Battalion
    FF Harold Hastings 42 Battalion
    FF Charles Bouton Ladder 156
    FF William O?Connor Ladder 156

http://stevespak.com/waldbaums.html

http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/tag/fire/


Gravesend: 
http://forgotten-ny.com/2013/05/avenue-u-gravesend/

http://forgotten-ny.com/2009/09/gravesend-part-2-brooklyn/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravesend,_Brooklyn

Both Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay had horse race tracks in the early 1900s.  This is a 1904 video of the Gravesend track:
http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2012/01/26005/



 
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Engine 73/Ladder 42/Squad 2/Battalion 55/Battalion 26 - firehouse - 655/657 and 661 Prospect Avenue - Woodstock, Bronx

    Engine 73 organized 655/657 Prospect Avenue                                    1900
    Engine 73 relocated to 1226 Seneca Avenue at Engine 94                    2000
    Engine 73 returned to 655/657 Prospect Avenue                                  2001

    Ladder 42 organized 661 Prospect Avenue                                          1913
    Ladder 42 relocated to 1213 Intervale Avenue                                    2000
    Ladder 42 returned to 661 Prospect Avenue                                        2001

    Squad 2 organized 655/657 Prospect Avenue at Engine 73                    1955
    Squad 2 disbanded                                                                            1976

    Battalion 55 organized 655/657 Prospect Avenue at Engine 73              1969
    Battalion 55 disbanded                                                                      1988

    Battalion 26 moved to 655/657 Prospect Avenue at Engine 73              1991
    Battalion 26 moved to 1155 Washington Avenue at Engine 50              1997
   

Landmark firehouses: 
http://observer.com/2012/08/257577/#slide1

http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/2524.pdf

655/657 and 661 Prospect Avenue:







Engine 73:






Ladder 42:





Note - pictures from Engine 73/Ladder 42 Facebook site:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/FDNY-Engine-Co-73-Ladder-Co-42/241077632639489

Engine 73/Ladder 42 100 years:  http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/events/2013/091013a.shtml


Sq 2 1960s:


Engine 73/Ladder 42/Squad 2  -  R&Ws in the 60s and 70s:

  1961 RUNS                        1962 RUNS                        1963 RUNS                        1964 RUNS                        1965 RUNS
E58  3024  L26  3214      E283 2980  L120 3410      E283  3627  L120 4112      E283  4952  L120 4970      E231  6170  L120  6077
E283 2701  L120 2888      E82  2733  L103 3349      E231  3157  L103 3816      E231  4935  L103 4316      E283  6148  L103  5550
E82  2648  L103 2627      E58  2708  L26  3208      E82  3051  L26  3500      E82    4612  L26  4013      E290  5551  L31  4253
BC12 4457                        E231 2618  L123 2522      E290  2801  L43  2907      E58    4245  L31  3759      E82    5137  L26  4088
SQ2  3597                        BC44 4206                        BC44 4902                      E290  4155                        E73    4777
SQ4  3362                        SQ4  4056                        SQ4  4838                      BC44  5976                        BC44  7815
                                      SQ2  3738                        SQ2  4311                      BC3    4241                        R3      2570
                                                                                                                      SQ4    3651

  1966 RUNS                          1969 RUNS                            1970 RUNS                          1971 RUNS
E82  6234  L120  6476      E94  7477  L31  7806      E290  7151  L120  8791      E82  7876  L120    8013
E73  5730  L103  5824      E73  6876  L48  7643      E231  6983  L103-1 8047      E283 6900 L103-1 7726
E94  5413  L31    4976    E45  6758  L120 7127      E41-1  6898  L103-2 7889      E41-1 6808 L103-2 7704
E283 5279  L123  4677      E290 6655  L27  7070      E232  6704  L123    7650      E231  6731  L123  7201
E290 5114  L48    4563      E231  6290 L103-1 7032    E50-1  6680  L48    6673      E41-2 6692  L48    6879
BC3  6008                          E82  6183 L103-2 6752    E283    6644  L29    6211      E88-1 6634  L31    6864
SQ4  7483                          SQ3  8445                        SQ4      9694                        SQ4  9795
SQ2  7335                          SQ4  8277                        SQ3      9278                        SQ1  7841
R3    3031                          SQ2  7918                        SQ1      7892                        R2    4060
                                        R2    3483                        R2        3859                        M5    1507














Engine 73 responding:
FDNY Engine 73 Responding

FDNY Engine 73


LODDs  (Never Forget - RIP):
Lt. Robert Davison (1951)
Firefighter Henry Holster (1927)
Firefighter Nathan Levine (1947)
Firefighter Patrick O?Keefe (1943).
Lt. Brian Ahern (2011)
Lt. Raymond Murphy (2011)
Firefighter Peter Bielfeld (2011)


Woodstock, Bronx: 
The community lies in the South Bronx, and is just North of Mott Haven above 149th street, just East of Melrose at 3rd Avenue, just South of Morrisania at 161st, and just West of Hunts Point at Bruckner Blvd. The area was inhabited in the 1860s primarily by German immigrants.  It was named the 1860s due to the area's wooded nature. It is a mix off old tenement buildings, classic brownstones, frame homes, affordable housing developments and housing projects!









 
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Engine 295/Ladder 144  firehouse    12-49 149th St  Whitestone, Queens

    Firehouse built in 1915 at 14-09 149th St.  Firehouse moved 1938-1939 to 12-49 149th St.

    Engine 295 organized 14-09 149th St w/Ladder 144    1915
    Engine 295 relocated 150-43 14th Ave w/Ladder 144  1938
    Engine 295 moved to 12-49 149th St w/Ladder 144    1939

    Ladder 144 organized 14-09 149th St w/Engine 295    1915
    Ladder 144 relocated 150-43 14th Ave w/ Engine 295  1938
    Ladder 144 moved to 12-49 149th St w/ Engine 295  1939

    Battalion 52 located at 14-09 149th St w/Engine 295    1927-1928

    Bridge Chemical 64 organized 150-43 14th Ave at Engine 295      1939
    Bridge Chemical 64 moved to 12-49 149th Street w/Engine 295  1939
    Bridge Chemical 64 disbanded                                                  1957
          Note - Bridge Chemical Unit was a converted pumper used for bridge responses.


Engine 295/Ladder 144 firehouse 14-09 149th St (original location - approximately 1915): 

   



12-49 149th St approx 1940 (after firehouse moved):

   

   

   


12-49 149th St:

   

   


   

   

   



Engine 295:

   

   

Ladder 144:

   

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU7dJWkNh4A


Engine 295/Ladder 144:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nvvUKHa8wc


Whitestone fire history:  Whitestone was protected by these volunteer fire companies prior to Queens becoming part of NYC (1898) and FDNY expansion in 1915:

    Whitestone Engine 1  7th Avenue/17th St                  1887-1915
    Hose 1  Park Place/University Avenue                              ?-1905
    Columbia Hose 2  18th St and 7th Avenue                1891-1915
    Indian Hose 2  18th St and 7th Avenue                    1894-1915
    Whitestone Ladder 1 18th St/8th Avenue                  1871-1915

   
Columbia Hose Company Whitestone - approximately 1900:

   


Columbia Hose Company - race - approximately 1901:

   
   
   


Engine 1 early 1900s:

   

Columbia Hose band early 1900s:

   


Whitestone, Queens:

    http://forgotten-ny.com/2008/02/whitestone-queens/


Bronx Whitestone Bridge:

    "The idea for a crossing between the Bronx and Whitestone, Queens had come as early as 1905. At the time, residents around the proposed area of the bridge protested construction in fear of losing the then-rural character of the community.  In 1929, however, the Regional Plan Association had proposed another bridge from the Bronx to northern Queens to allow motorists from upstate New York and New England to reach Queens and Long Island without traveling through the traffic-ridden communities of western Queens. On February 25, 1930, influential planner Robert Moses proposed a Ferry Point Park-Whitestone Bridge as a part of his Belt Parkway system around Brooklyn and Queens.  As the 1930s progressed, Moses found his bridge increasingly necessary to directly link the mainland to the 1939 New York World's Fair and to LaGuardia Airport (then known as North Beach Airport). In addition, the Whitestone Bridge was to provide congestion relief to the Triborough Bridge.

    The New York Legislature approved Moses' plan in April 1937. Moses had raised controversy when he quickly decided to demolish seventeen homes in the Queens community of Malba. Moses argued such measures were necessary to complete the bridge on schedule. The RPA had also said that the Whitestone Bridge should have rail connections, or at least be able to accommodate them in the future, but had no allies on the project, to Moses' relief."  (Wikipedia)

    http://new.mta.info/news/2013/04/12/bronx-whitestone-bridge-celebrating-74-years

Firehouse was moved 1938-1939 to 12-49 149th St. as part of the infrastructure construction.


Ladder 144 LODDs:  FF Fred Ziegler, Ladder 144, and FF William D. Austin, Ladder 144, lost their lives when a small boat on fire exploded.  June 17, 1947.

   

   

    Never forget.


Engine 244/Ladder 144 100 Year Anniversary:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCgMTS4ao_g




 
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Hey Mack, I think Battalion 55 was disbanded in the 80's not '76 (not sure of the exact year)
 
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73/42- if those walls could talk, imagine the stories they would tell! I think only a small handful of places saw what they saw over the years. 
 
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Engine 295/Ladder 144  - firehouse  12-49 149th St  Whitestone, Queens  built in 1915 at 14-09 149th St. and moved 1938-1939 to 12-49 149th St.

Whitestone was protected by these volunteer fire companies prior to Queens becoming part of NYC (1898) and FDNY expansion in 1915:

    Whitestone Engine 1  7th Avenue/17th St                  1887-1915
    Hose 1  Park Place/University Avenue                              ?-1905
    Columbia Hose 2  18th St and 7th Avenue                1891-1915
    Indian Hose 2  18th St and 7th Avenue                    1894-1915
    Whitestone Ladder 1 18th St/8th Avenue                  1871-1915

   
Columbia Hose Company Whitestone - early 1900s:


Columbia Hose Company - race - late 1800s:


Engine 1 early 1900s:


Columbia Hose band early 1900s:



FDNY - new companies Engine 295 and Ladder 144 at 14-09 149th St approx. 1915: 

 
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mack said:
Another unknown former firehouse - Queens? - Rockaway? - a volunteer company firehouse which also served as initial quarters for newly formed FDNY units?

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Engine 272 firehouse 135-16 38th Avenue  Flushing, Queens

    Engine 172 organized 135-16 38th Avenue former quarters volunteer Empire Hose 1      1908
    Engine 172 became Engine 272                                                                                  1913
    Engine 272 moved to former volunteer quarters                                                          1927
    Engine 272 moved to new firehouse 135-16 38th Avenue w/Ladder 129                        1928
    Engine 272 disbanded                                                                                              1974

    Note: 135-16 38th Avenue was original quarters of volunteer Empire Hose 1 1856-1908.
              38th Avenue formerly called Lincoln St in Flushing.


135-16 38th Avenue original firehouse:


135-16 38th Avenue firehouse approx 1927:


135-16 38th Avenue firehouse 1928-1972 Engine 272/Ladder 129 - built same location as previous firehouse:


135-16 38th Avenue currently FDNY EMS Station 52/Haz Tec Bn:




FF William E. Lehmann, Engine 272 LODD August 24th, 1939 - hearth attack - RIP.

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fdny1075k said:
Isn't the Queens Borough Commander running out of 38th Ave. as well?
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The QBC was at that location from around 2001 until ??. I think they are now at E324 over on the L.I.E. & 108 street. Besides QBC the old quarters of E272/B52 had the 14th Division District Office (Building Inspections) and the Marshals during the years. From around 1997 to the present it houses EMS Batt. 52 and now EMS Haz-Tac has moved in. A lot of history in that building.
 
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