Roofman4 - I had the same interest discovering the old former firehouses that are still extant. I learned a lot from the experts on this site (jbendick, Guitarman, Johnd248, vbcapt and all the others). From them, I learned about the Mike Boucher's FDNY History Page (http://www.nyfd.com/mikes.html). There are lists of not only the FDNY firehouse locations/dates, but also the original Brooklyn Fire Department units/locations and all the pre-FDNY volunteer units and locations, by boro. Many of these old houses are still standing, even if disguised as stores, garages, apartments, community centers.
If you take a list and plug the unit location into "Google Maps", you get the approximate or even exact map location. Click on the yellow figure icon (left side of the map at the top of the scale change - sorry if you know this already) and drag the dotted circle under it to the map location. You will see the current street image at that location. You might have to use the Google Maps rotation arrows (top left of screen) or the street arrows to move up or down the block. I found Google is close but not exact. I was very surprised to find so many of these old and interesting buildings have survived over a hundred years after their poles were slid for the last time. These were buildings fire horses lived in as well as firefighters. You can sometimes find a new FDNY facility down the block.
I just looked at an old firehouse for Rossville H&L 1 located at 2355 Arthur Kill Rd., Staten Island. It was disbanded in 1903 and it is currently a "Crazy Goat Feed Shop". Maybe that is a good retirement career for those quarters. The new quarters for E 168 are 2 blocks away at 1100 Rossville Ave. You can look at them both thanks to Google.
I wonder if there are any books which contain pictures of these old firehouses, especially a book which covers what they looked like when in service.
If you take a list and plug the unit location into "Google Maps", you get the approximate or even exact map location. Click on the yellow figure icon (left side of the map at the top of the scale change - sorry if you know this already) and drag the dotted circle under it to the map location. You will see the current street image at that location. You might have to use the Google Maps rotation arrows (top left of screen) or the street arrows to move up or down the block. I found Google is close but not exact. I was very surprised to find so many of these old and interesting buildings have survived over a hundred years after their poles were slid for the last time. These were buildings fire horses lived in as well as firefighters. You can sometimes find a new FDNY facility down the block.
I just looked at an old firehouse for Rossville H&L 1 located at 2355 Arthur Kill Rd., Staten Island. It was disbanded in 1903 and it is currently a "Crazy Goat Feed Shop". Maybe that is a good retirement career for those quarters. The new quarters for E 168 are 2 blocks away at 1100 Rossville Ave. You can look at them both thanks to Google.
I wonder if there are any books which contain pictures of these old firehouses, especially a book which covers what they looked like when in service.
