FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies
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Oldest five firehouses - year built:
E 26 Manhattan - 1860
E 5 Manhattan - 1864
E 44 Manhattan - 1881
E 218 Brooklyn - 1887
E 226 Brooklyn - 1889
Note - E 5 was organized a month before E 26 as FDNY companies in 1865. Both firehouses were built and used by volunteer companies prior to FDNY organization. E 26's firehouse was built in 1860. E 5's firehouse in 1864. Both have claims to "oldest" FDNY firehouse.
E 26 Manhattan - 1860
E 5 Manhattan - 1864
E 44 Manhattan - 1881
E 218 Brooklyn - 1887
E 226 Brooklyn - 1889
Note - E 5 was organized a month before E 26 as FDNY companies in 1865. Both firehouses were built and used by volunteer companies prior to FDNY organization. E 26's firehouse was built in 1860. E 5's firehouse in 1864. Both have claims to "oldest" FDNY firehouse.
Thanks Mack. The above is some excellent history of the oldest FDNY firehouses. If they could only talk.
If anybody is looking for the oldest still working firehouse in Connecticut I believe we have it located in Norwich, Ct. It is called "The Greenville Hilton" and there's a short little poem that goes with it.
"The big old red building built in 1896, it's location North Main St, number 446".
It is a two bay firehouse three stories high.
If you're ever in the neighborhood, stop in and tell'em Willy D sent you.
If anybody is looking for the oldest still working firehouse in Connecticut I believe we have it located in Norwich, Ct. It is called "The Greenville Hilton" and there's a short little poem that goes with it.
"The big old red building built in 1896, it's location North Main St, number 446".
It is a two bay firehouse three stories high.
If you're ever in the neighborhood, stop in and tell'em Willy D sent you.
Engine 209/Bn 34 - firehouse - 159 Taaffe Place (1888-1966)
- E 9 BFD organized 159 Taaffe Pl (former volunteer E 12 Phoenix firehouse) 1869
- E 9 BFD new firehouse 159 Taafee Pl 1888
- E 9 BFD becomes E 9 FDNY 1898
- E 9 becomes E 109 1899
- E 109 becomes E 209 1913
- E 209 new firehouse 850 Bedford St w/L 102 1966
- E 209 disbanded 2003
- Bn 34 relocated to 159 Taafee Pl 1946-1950
E 209/L 102/Bn 34 firehouse 850 Bedford St:
FDNY "FIRE ! Everybody Goes" Part-1 of 3
FDNY "FIRE ! Everybody Goes" Part-2 of 3
FDNY "FIRE ! Everybody Goes" Part-3 of 3
- E 9 BFD organized 159 Taaffe Pl (former volunteer E 12 Phoenix firehouse) 1869
- E 9 BFD new firehouse 159 Taafee Pl 1888
- E 9 BFD becomes E 9 FDNY 1898
- E 9 becomes E 109 1899
- E 109 becomes E 209 1913
- E 209 new firehouse 850 Bedford St w/L 102 1966
- E 209 disbanded 2003
- Bn 34 relocated to 159 Taafee Pl 1946-1950
E 209/L 102/Bn 34 firehouse 850 Bedford St:
FDNY "FIRE ! Everybody Goes" Part-1 of 3
FDNY "FIRE ! Everybody Goes" Part-2 of 3
FDNY "FIRE ! Everybody Goes" Part-3 of 3
Ladder 102/Bn 34 - firehouse - 894 Bedford Ave (1892-1966)
- L 2 BFD organized 898 Bedford Ave (former volunteer firehouse) 1869
- L 2 BFD new firehouse 894 Bedford Ave 1892
- L 2 BFD becomes L 2 FDNY 1898
- L 2 becomes L 52 1899
- L 52 becomes L 102 1913
- L 102 new firehouse 850 Bedford St w/E209 and Bn 34 1966
Bn 34 at 894 Bedford Ave firehouse w/L 52, L 102 1906-1946 and 1950-1966
http://www.nyfd.com/brooklyn_ladders/ladder_102.html
E 209/L 102 firehouse 850 Bedford St:
FDNY LADDER 102 "BEDFORD EXPRESS" RESPONDING
- L 2 BFD organized 898 Bedford Ave (former volunteer firehouse) 1869
- L 2 BFD new firehouse 894 Bedford Ave 1892
- L 2 BFD becomes L 2 FDNY 1898
- L 2 becomes L 52 1899
- L 52 becomes L 102 1913
- L 102 new firehouse 850 Bedford St w/E209 and Bn 34 1966
Bn 34 at 894 Bedford Ave firehouse w/L 52, L 102 1906-1946 and 1950-1966
http://www.nyfd.com/brooklyn_ladders/ladder_102.html
E 209/L 102 firehouse 850 Bedford St:
FDNY LADDER 102 "BEDFORD EXPRESS" RESPONDING
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The reason Batt 34 moved to E209 from 1946 to 1950 was that E230's firehouse at 59 Ellery St. was going to be demolished because it was in the middle of what would become the NYCHA Marcy Houses. During that period E230 was temporarily housed at L102's firehouse while their new firehouse was constructed and completed.mack said:Ladder 102/Bn 34 - firehouse - 894 Bedford Ave (1892-1966)
- L 2 BFD organized 898 Bedford Ave (former volunteer firehouse) 1869
- L 2 BFD new firehouse 894 Bedford Ave 1892
- L 2 BFD becomes L 2 FDNY 1898
- L 2 becomes L 52 1899
- L 52 becomes L 102 1913
- L 102 new firehouse 850 Bedford St w/E209 and Bn 34 1966
Bn 34 at 894 Bedford Ave firehouse w/L 52, L 102 1906-1946 and 1950-1966
http://www.nyfd.com/brooklyn_ladders/ladder_102.html
E 209/L 102 firehouse 850 Bedford St:
FDNY LADDER 102 "BEDFORD EXPRESS" RESPONDING
L 103 former firehouse 183 Concord St - 1875-1932
- L 3 BFD organized at 236 Gold St (former volunteer firehouse) 1869
- L 3 BFD new firehouse at 183 Concord St 1875
- L 3 BFD becomes L 3 FDNY 1898
- L 3 becomes L 53 1899
- L 103 moves to new firehouse 480 Sheffield Ave w/ E 290 1932
- L 103-2 organized at 480 Sheffield Ave 1968-1974
L 3 BFD at 236 Gold St:
L 103 at 480 Sheffield Ave:
183 Concord St former firehouse:
183 Concord St former firehouse:
From "Our Firemen - The Official History of the Brooklyn Fire Dept"
- - TRUCK COMPANY NO. 3, THE MEN WHO FIGHT AT CLOSE QUARTERS.
Truck Company No. 3, which at present is stationed at No. 183 Concord Street, was organized on Sept. 15, 1869, and occupied the house at No. 236 Gold Street, which was formerly used by Volunteer Engine No. n and later by
Volunteer Truck No. 2. That house was a two-story brick building, 20 x 50 feet; the whole first floor was used as an apparatus-room, with two stalls in the rear for the horses, the second floor being fitted up as sleeping apartments for the officers and men. On April 29, 1874. the company removed to its present quarters on Concord Street, a two-story brick building. 25x75 feet. The apparatus-room has three stalls in the rear, and has lately been
supplied with a patent extension ladder.
http://nyfd.com/brooklyn_engines/engine_290/engine290_history.pdf
- L 3 BFD organized at 236 Gold St (former volunteer firehouse) 1869
- L 3 BFD new firehouse at 183 Concord St 1875
- L 3 BFD becomes L 3 FDNY 1898
- L 3 becomes L 53 1899
- L 103 moves to new firehouse 480 Sheffield Ave w/ E 290 1932
- L 103-2 organized at 480 Sheffield Ave 1968-1974
L 3 BFD at 236 Gold St:
L 103 at 480 Sheffield Ave:
183 Concord St former firehouse:
183 Concord St former firehouse:
From "Our Firemen - The Official History of the Brooklyn Fire Dept"
- - TRUCK COMPANY NO. 3, THE MEN WHO FIGHT AT CLOSE QUARTERS.
Truck Company No. 3, which at present is stationed at No. 183 Concord Street, was organized on Sept. 15, 1869, and occupied the house at No. 236 Gold Street, which was formerly used by Volunteer Engine No. n and later by
Volunteer Truck No. 2. That house was a two-story brick building, 20 x 50 feet; the whole first floor was used as an apparatus-room, with two stalls in the rear for the horses, the second floor being fitted up as sleeping apartments for the officers and men. On April 29, 1874. the company removed to its present quarters on Concord Street, a two-story brick building. 25x75 feet. The apparatus-room has three stalls in the rear, and has lately been
supplied with a patent extension ladder.
http://nyfd.com/brooklyn_engines/engine_290/engine290_history.pdf
Engine 288 - former firehouse 61-55 Maspeth Ave 1913-1914
- original firehouse of Maspeth Engine 4 1890-1913
- Engine 288 organized 1913
- Engine 288 moved to new firehouse 56-29 68th St 1914
- Engine 288 disbanded to form Squad 288 1998
Maspeth Engine 4:
http://www.junipercivic.com/juniperberryarticle.asp?nid=409
Former firehouse became Frank Kowalinski American Legion Post 4:
Squad 288: http://www.fdnysquad288.com/ourfirehouse.html
Engine 288/Squad 288 firehouse:
Ladder 136 relocated 1974-1976
Fdny Squad 288
- original firehouse of Maspeth Engine 4 1890-1913
- Engine 288 organized 1913
- Engine 288 moved to new firehouse 56-29 68th St 1914
- Engine 288 disbanded to form Squad 288 1998
Maspeth Engine 4:
http://www.junipercivic.com/juniperberryarticle.asp?nid=409
Former firehouse became Frank Kowalinski American Legion Post 4:
Squad 288: http://www.fdnysquad288.com/ourfirehouse.html
Engine 288/Squad 288 firehouse:
Ladder 136 relocated 1974-1976
Fdny Squad 288
Engine 253 firehouse 2429 86th St. Bensonhurst/Gravesend Brooklyn (1896-present)
- Organized as Engine 53 Brooklyn Fire Department W/ L-24 (BFD) Feb. 1, 1896
- Became Engine 53, FDNY Jan. 28, 1898
- Became CEC (Combination Engine Co) 53 Apr. 15, 1898
- Became CEC 153 Oct. 1 1899
- Became CEC 253 Jan. 1, 1913
- Relocated to Harway St and 25th Ave (temp) Sep. 7 1915 (* subway construction)
- Returned 2429 86th St. Dec. 31, 1918
- Became Engine 253 Oct. 18, 1929
Engine 253 company video:
http://www.ourstage.com/tracks/YCHMFDFSNNTP-a-day-in-the-life
*4th Avenue subway construction history:
http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Chapter_4:_Progress_of_Construction;_Features_of_New_Work
Bensonhurst:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bensonhurst,_Brooklyn
Gravesend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravesend,_Brooklyn
- Organized as Engine 53 Brooklyn Fire Department W/ L-24 (BFD) Feb. 1, 1896
- Became Engine 53, FDNY Jan. 28, 1898
- Became CEC (Combination Engine Co) 53 Apr. 15, 1898
- Became CEC 153 Oct. 1 1899
- Became CEC 253 Jan. 1, 1913
- Relocated to Harway St and 25th Ave (temp) Sep. 7 1915 (* subway construction)
- Returned 2429 86th St. Dec. 31, 1918
- Became Engine 253 Oct. 18, 1929
Engine 253 company video:
http://www.ourstage.com/tracks/YCHMFDFSNNTP-a-day-in-the-life
*4th Avenue subway construction history:
http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Chapter_4:_Progress_of_Construction;_Features_of_New_Work
Bensonhurst:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bensonhurst,_Brooklyn
Gravesend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravesend,_Brooklyn
Engine 219 - original firehouse - 735 Dean Street (1880-1977)
- E 19 (BFD) organized 1880
- Became E 19 (FDNY) 1898
- Became E 119 1899
- Became E 219 1913
- Moved new firehouse 494 Dean St w/L 105 1977
E 19 BFD:
735 Dean St original firehoiuse:
From "Our Firemen- the History of the Brooklyn Fire Department":
"ENGINE COMPANY NO. 19 : AMONG SCHOOLS, CLUBS CHURCHES AND ARMORIES
The home of Engine Company No. 19 is in Dean Street, near Underhill Avenue. The company was organized Dec. 24,1880, and is located in a very large and important district, which is bounded by Park Avenue, Kingston Avenue, the city line, and Carrol and Nevins Streets. There are 112 boxes in this territory, and on a second-alarm the men respond to calls from 94 additional boxes. They are expected to be first on hand should a fire occur in any of the following places : Knox's hat factory, Budweiser's brewery, Reilly's storehouse, Vosburgh's gas fixture factory. Graves' storehouse, Webster's silver-plating establishment, the Brooklyn Riding Academy, the Home for Destitute Children, St. Joseph's School, St. Theresa s School, Adelphi Academy, Pratt Institute, Public Schools Nos. 9 and 42, Chester's silver-plating works. King's furniture and carpet house. Long Island Brewery, Brevoort flats. Union League Club, Kings County Penitentiary, Montauk Club, Brooklyn City car stables, Richardson's car stables. Flatbush Avenue depot of the Long Island Railroad and the large freight depot of the same company, on Atlantic Avenue ; Crawford & Valentine's Scrimshaw works, the 13th Regiment and the 3d Gatling Battery armories, the Criterion theatre, Seney Hospital, Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Home for Aged Men and Women (two buildings), private hospital on President Street, Ansonia clock works, Brasher's oilcloth factory, Homeopathic Hospital, Talmage's Tabernacle, St. Luke's Episcopal and several other large churches."
"The company is equipped with a second-class Amoskeag engine, a four-wheel hosecart, and four young, well-trained horses, three of which are handsome bays and the fourth a dapple gray. The following are some of the big fires at which the company has been engaged laboriously and often at great peril to their lives for many hours before the fire fiend could be controlled:
Palmer's cooperage (twice), Dick & Meyer's sugar house, Church's soda works, Pratt's oil works (twice), St. John's Home, the Penitentiary shoe shop, Jewell's wharf, Watson's stores, Harbeck stores, Warner Institute, Adelphi Academy, Heckler's iron works (twice), Richardson's car stables (three times), Talmage's Tabernacle, Baum's millinery establishment, Koeke
Brothers' hay and feed storehouse. Contractor dark's stables, where one hundred mules were burned, Loomis' moulding mills, Budweiser brewery, Brooklyn Cocoa-matting Company, Fink's coal yard and dwellings, a large rag
repository on Kent Avenue, McDonald's oil works, Smith & Pettinger's lumber yard, the Almshouse, Hyde & Behman's theatre, Ovington Brothers' crockery store, Buchanan & Lyall's Planet mills. Horseman's bakery, the Wallabout Market fires, and the dwelling-house fire on Court Street during the water famine."
Newspaper accounts Brooklyn Engine 19:
Fighting E 19 (Brooklyn Eagle)
New apparatus (Brooklyn Eagle):
E 219 web page (Don Holt): http://www.nyfd.com/brooklyn_engines/engine_219.html
Current firehouse 494 Dean St w/L 105:
- E 19 (BFD) organized 1880
- Became E 19 (FDNY) 1898
- Became E 119 1899
- Became E 219 1913
- Moved new firehouse 494 Dean St w/L 105 1977
E 19 BFD:
735 Dean St original firehoiuse:
From "Our Firemen- the History of the Brooklyn Fire Department":
"ENGINE COMPANY NO. 19 : AMONG SCHOOLS, CLUBS CHURCHES AND ARMORIES
The home of Engine Company No. 19 is in Dean Street, near Underhill Avenue. The company was organized Dec. 24,1880, and is located in a very large and important district, which is bounded by Park Avenue, Kingston Avenue, the city line, and Carrol and Nevins Streets. There are 112 boxes in this territory, and on a second-alarm the men respond to calls from 94 additional boxes. They are expected to be first on hand should a fire occur in any of the following places : Knox's hat factory, Budweiser's brewery, Reilly's storehouse, Vosburgh's gas fixture factory. Graves' storehouse, Webster's silver-plating establishment, the Brooklyn Riding Academy, the Home for Destitute Children, St. Joseph's School, St. Theresa s School, Adelphi Academy, Pratt Institute, Public Schools Nos. 9 and 42, Chester's silver-plating works. King's furniture and carpet house. Long Island Brewery, Brevoort flats. Union League Club, Kings County Penitentiary, Montauk Club, Brooklyn City car stables, Richardson's car stables. Flatbush Avenue depot of the Long Island Railroad and the large freight depot of the same company, on Atlantic Avenue ; Crawford & Valentine's Scrimshaw works, the 13th Regiment and the 3d Gatling Battery armories, the Criterion theatre, Seney Hospital, Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Home for Aged Men and Women (two buildings), private hospital on President Street, Ansonia clock works, Brasher's oilcloth factory, Homeopathic Hospital, Talmage's Tabernacle, St. Luke's Episcopal and several other large churches."
"The company is equipped with a second-class Amoskeag engine, a four-wheel hosecart, and four young, well-trained horses, three of which are handsome bays and the fourth a dapple gray. The following are some of the big fires at which the company has been engaged laboriously and often at great peril to their lives for many hours before the fire fiend could be controlled:
Palmer's cooperage (twice), Dick & Meyer's sugar house, Church's soda works, Pratt's oil works (twice), St. John's Home, the Penitentiary shoe shop, Jewell's wharf, Watson's stores, Harbeck stores, Warner Institute, Adelphi Academy, Heckler's iron works (twice), Richardson's car stables (three times), Talmage's Tabernacle, Baum's millinery establishment, Koeke
Brothers' hay and feed storehouse. Contractor dark's stables, where one hundred mules were burned, Loomis' moulding mills, Budweiser brewery, Brooklyn Cocoa-matting Company, Fink's coal yard and dwellings, a large rag
repository on Kent Avenue, McDonald's oil works, Smith & Pettinger's lumber yard, the Almshouse, Hyde & Behman's theatre, Ovington Brothers' crockery store, Buchanan & Lyall's Planet mills. Horseman's bakery, the Wallabout Market fires, and the dwelling-house fire on Court Street during the water famine."
Newspaper accounts Brooklyn Engine 19:
Fighting E 19 (Brooklyn Eagle)
New apparatus (Brooklyn Eagle):
E 219 web page (Don Holt): http://www.nyfd.com/brooklyn_engines/engine_219.html
Current firehouse 494 Dean St w/L 105:
Not sure what status of E 15 former firehouse is:
http://thevillager.com/villager_202/henrystsettlement.html
http://www.henrystreet.org/donate-now/capital-campaign/firehouse.html
http://www.citylandnyc.org/sale-of-former-firehouse-approved-by-commission/
http://thevillager.com/villager_202/henrystsettlement.html
http://www.henrystreet.org/donate-now/capital-campaign/firehouse.html
http://www.citylandnyc.org/sale-of-former-firehouse-approved-by-commission/
Now that shot's going back a few years.mack said:This is an earlier picture of a Henry Street firehouse, built by volunteer company Americus Engine 6, predecessor to FDNY Engine 15. Structure is smaller and very different than 3story firehouse used by E 15.
What year did Engine 15 move to Fort Pitt?
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