Engine 216 firehouse 11 Scholes Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Engine 16 BFD organized Stagg Street and Union Avenue former volunteer firehouse 1872
Engine 16 BFD new firehouse 11 Scholes Street 1893
Engine 16 BFD became Engine 16 FDNY 1898
Engine 16 became Engine 116 1899
Engine 116 became Engine 216 1913
Engine 216 moved to new firehouse 187 Union Avenue at Ladder 108 1971
Engine 16 Brooklyn Fire Department:
"Engine Company 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 alongside 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."
- "Our Firemen - The Official History of the Brooklyn Fire Department"
LODD Engine 16 Brooklyn Fire Department:
Foreman (Captain) William Baldwin, January 20, 1880, collapse
"At seven o'clock on the morning of January 14, 1880, a fire broke out in Otto Huber's brewery, on old Bushwick Avenue. Engine No. 16 assisted in fighting the flames. In half an hour the fire was under control; when without a second's warning one end of the building collapsed. Six firemen, including Baldwin, were buried in the debris. Willing hands rescued them, and all recovered with the exception of Baldwin, who died six days afterward in St. Catherine's hospital. He left a wife and three children to mourn his loss. Baldwin had always been a favorite with his brother firemen, and his death threw a gloom over the whole Department. He had been with it for eight years; five years of which he was Foreman of Engine Company No. 16. The interment took place on Thursday January 22. The funera1 service was read in the South Third Street M.E. Church, and the body was laid in the firemen's plot at "The Evergreens." At the graveside were Chief Nevens and his subordinate engineers, the Foreman and two men from every company in the Eastern District; the entire company with which the deceased was connected; members of the Fire and Building department and many others. On Friday evening, February 20, a performance of Camille was given in the Academy of Music, and also one at the Novelty Theatre, which realized $5,505 for the widow and children. She also received $250 from the Fire Department Fund, of which, the dead fireman was a member."
- "Our Firemen - The Official History of the Brooklyn Fire Department"
11 Scholes Street:
11 Scholes Street former firehouse 1980s:
11 Scholes Street former firehouse current:
Engine 216 1938 WLF hose wagon:
Engine 216 "War Years":
Engine 216 1980 ALF 1000 GMP pumper:
Engine 216/Ladder 108/Battalion 35 187 Union Avenue new firehouse:
Engine 216:
Engine 216 responding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2XbNWYC8yU
Engine 216 LODD:
FF Danny Suhr, September 11, 2001, World Trade Center
http://todayremember.blogspot.com/2011/06/today-we-remember-ff-daniel-danny-suhr.html
Battalion 35 LODD:
BC Michael Graham, Feb 14, 1909, Box 33-195, Foot of N. 12th Street and Kent Avenue
Never forget.
Engine 216 history:
http://www.nyfd.com/history/engine_216_history.html
L42's house next door was built in 1913. Engine 62's house was opened on Dec 12, 1903. 
