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No elevator. That's what "walk-up" means.

Thank you. You're making my point. CIDS is often incorrect. Official City housing records listed as a five story. And it's the building I grew up in for 18 years.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/h3rHtbb7dvmCr5aC9 (You may have to highlight this link to get it to connect.) 2839 Decatur Avenue, five-story walk-up. Source of that information, two former residents of the building: 1. Officer of the third due engine (88), my father; 2. Chauffeur of the first due...

No, ground floor apartments accessible from the street, below the first story. Cellar apartments were usually below grade where the building superintendents ("supers") usually lived.

Five-story walk-up with additional walk-ins on the ground floor... Exactly like the one I grew up in on Decatur Avenue. Probably the same architect. Just what it's listed as in the official New York City housing records. Guess I can't resist correcting the CIDS.

Just looking at the map wouldn't 96 get in first due? Where's 82 and 31? Just asking.

Built in 1899 with still working fireplaces. Love it. Two units in the building. Last estimate at a cool $15mil. Ya' think someone would have thought to check out the fireplace liner.

Was that the actual response or the just the usual assignment? I think what 8060 is getting at is if 88 was out that would make 45 first due. But if 92 was relocated at 45 that would make 92 first due, no? Any idea where 88 vanished into the vapors?

88/38 normally 1st due here, just a few blocks from quarters. Long relocate for E80 from Vinegar Hill. Gman rule applies?

I believe you guys are missing the real reason for the arson of the 1960s and '70s... Rent control. Rent control was a program started during World War II to protect families whose breadwinners were off to war. WW2 put an end to the Great Depression. Factories started manufacturing and wages...

Anybody have any idea where the original siren was located on the 1947 ALF? E48 in my neighborhood ran with one (I think originally assigned to E1). The siren was an old moaner, silver in color, mounted on the step below the chauffeurs door. It actually pointed across the front of the rig to...

I failed to mention that Engine 70 on City Island was also a combination company in 1910.

Great stuff Cap. Not to be picky (but of course it is) a few additions... In 1910, Ladder 19 was located further south than plotted in a single house in Melrose on Forrest Avenue and 161st Street. Today it is the site of the NYCHA Forrest Housing Project. L19 moved there in 1898 from Ogden...

92 also before 88...musta been a lot of stuff going on in Da' Bronx at the time.

Great photo! At one time about 1970 this house contained Engines 50 and 50-2, Ladder 19, and Division 6. It might look too small to house them all but they were all so busy they were hardly ever around at the same time to be in quarters.

50/19 former house, built in the 1880s, is still standing around the corner between Park and 3rd Avenue on 166th Street. Any chance of a picture of that? Great photos thanks for sharing capp.

In one of the videos 88 took a bottle line and operated on the roof. Likely first or second due on the second alarm.

Olden days... 79 75 48 81 88 62 relocates to 79 Things do change.

Is this new rescue model outfitted with a pump also? I don't know about Staten Island but in the Bronx the only quad in service in the 1950s was at Engine Company 96. It had previously operated as a combination engine company with a pumper, hose wagon, and a city service ladder truck. These...