Easy. Ave A through D up to 13th street is Alphabet City - although those who worked down there generally didn’t consider anything West of Ave C Alphabet City - due to the draconian insinuation of Alphabet City and more fire duty compared to the East Village.
Here’s an easy way of looking at...
253 brings the rig into that complex and gets relay from 245, although 2227 is right on Stillwell so not sure if they did that here.
They may do a bottle stretch too
Those were always fun buildings to catch work in! Nothing like a good tenement job!
And if I recall correctly, those buildings over there run across all the way to Allen street. The entrance to the apartments above the commercial parts are around the block. Those tickets used to have “AKA so...
245/161 are first due to this. They go two blocks east of ocean parkway first due - basically up the Brighton 2nd stuff
Citizen shows 161 having the front of the building
4th Battalion units years ago when the KO Curtain first came out and was given to roof man, came up with their own SOP for who brings it, due to the abundance of LRFPMD in the area. They added extra length on the ropes attached to the curtain so that it would reach all floors from the roof, this...
Weird occupancy that 18 used to drill on a lot. I think a group home of some sorts. Used to automatically drive down the service road of the FDR to take the throat which is actually in the rear
Amen!
I missed you by only a couple years but your name and rep is well known!
I actually just got assigned back down there - made a couple visits and was thrilled to be back! Looking forward to working back in the 4th and 6th Battalion areas but I like the entire first Division too
God bless
And to note - 28/11 with 15/18/4 was attending the Remembrance Mass only a couple blocks away for not only 28/11, but further members of the 4th Battalion who were stricken with WTC illnesses from September 11th when this box came in 🙏
Lots of those tenements were rehabbed into condos with sprinkler systems. The nature of the beast as no way an area in Lower Manhattan was gonna leave real estate money on the table. Cut back on the workload substantially down there the last 15-20 years at least but still a great place to work...
Let’s leave whoever the aide was alone. Its Labor Day weekend and there’s a lot of younger/newer guys working. Its rapidly turning into a young job, and there’s always gonna be growing pains
The 43 is one solid Battalion and Im sure it is being handled 💪
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