Recent content by ta176

Good thing 75 didn't block the bike lane. Cops might have written them up.

Back then FDNY was a step child that never got the money they needed to do the job. Hurst tools were only given to co.s near hiways. You needed anything for the Firehouse we all chipped in. So although we were the best and busiest Fire Dept., it was the brothers work efforts that made us what we...

Years ago it was luck of the draw. Usually not, living in Queens and assigned to Staten Island. I lived in Queens and sent to Brownsville, my car pool buddy from proby school living in Queens went to Astoria Queens. Living upstate maybe the Bronx or Manhattan. My 24 years in Brownsville, I...

Bob was until recently a regular at Columbian Meetings, CSU and Brooklyn breakfast. He missed last 2 or 3 and heard his health was going down hill. We had a few nice conversations about old times at the Rock. He will be missed. RIP Bob and condolences to the Family.

I lived at 107Ave. and 107 St.. I attended the school dedication to Capt. Fowler on Tuesday, because my kids went there and I worked with Vinnies brother John. The school put on a nice show and FDNY presence was very good. I'm out of there 46 years which gave me a 20 year commute. I see a lot...

I got on the job in 68. The rigs back then were plain and simple. Today the rigs are a work of art, they look beautiful. Now cars back in the 60's and early 70's were works of art and now they all look the same and are plain ugly.

So who brings them to Manhattan. FDNY should have a hot line to have a unit, either PD or Traffic to tow vehicles such as this.

Those guys look well equipped for that parking problem. Seems they have had that situation before. Did the city provide them with the wheel jacks or did it come out of the company commissary, like most of the things we have, commissary, used to buy.

I would think 176 3rd due before 123. Unless 176 was out.

I just came back from the wake and there was a tremendous response. Long lines to enter the funeral parlor. Greg RIP.

A little confusion here with Ronald Wilson and Ronald Mitchell. I worked with a Randy Wilson in BFI. So heading should be Ronald Mitchell.

I reluctantly travel the Belt Pkwy but sometimes I have to when I travel out of state, I no longer take the Williamsburg Bridge and Holland Tunnel, and my son lives in Mill Basin. Last week I was on it at about 11 AM and they were repairing the guard rail at Pennsylvania Ave. with 2 lanes...

I don't remember Wolfman Jack here in NY. I thought he was a California Guy. My wife used to call in the Birthdays of me and the kids to Harry Harrison in the AM. So as I pull up to the Firehouse, Harry announces my Birthday. Later that morning the Babe says he heard on the radio today was my BD.

Those Brownstones on MacDonough St. had the nicest wood work and most of them were well kept. Just watch out for the low window sills. Firefighting tactics in those type buildings was a little different than the norm.

That few minutes for truck response has probably increased due to, speed bumps, 25 mph car traffic and more stop signs and traffic lights added to that area due to a population increase.