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E71/L55/Div.6 was originally lettered E41, L55, Bn 26
Fabulous Firehouses become Homes and Businesses
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Chief , yes I forgot them LOL (232) also the E5 & L3 was Ave "A" and E. 11 St not E. 13th
The Firehouse on E. 2nd St between Ave "B" and Ave. "C" was lettered on the prints as E.11 & L11, E.11 went to Harlem as the 2nd Section of E 91 and E 28 went into the new house.
Chief I didn't know about 237 & 218 nor 225 & 236
The Firehouse on E. 2nd St between Ave "B" and Ave. "C" was lettered on the prints as E.11 & L11, E.11 went to Harlem as the 2nd Section of E 91 and E 28 went into the new house.
Chief I didn't know about 237 & 218 nor 225 & 236
When E 17/L 18/Bn 4 moved from old Broome St firehouse into new house on Pitt in 1973, new firehouse was actually lettered for Eng/Ladder/Squad/Bn. I believe squad went to Bronx instead, firehouse was occupied by Eng 17, Ladder 18 and Bn 4 w/o squad. Eng 17, a very busy company, was then disbanded and Ladder 18 and Bn 4 had quarters. Engine 15 was relocated in 2001.
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Marine Company 7, Fulton Ferry
Now a restaurant 8) 8)
http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2010/11/building-of-the-171/
Now a restaurant 8) 8)
http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2010/11/building-of-the-171/
Engine 219 - original firehouse - 735 Dean Street (1880-1977) - originally organized as Engine 19, BFD
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."
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."
Douglaston Hose Company 1 - volunteer company firehouse - 42-30 Douglaston Pkwy (1903-1929)
Serves as an American Legion Post.
http://www.placematters.net/node/998
Serves as an American Legion Post.
http://www.placematters.net/node/998
Engine 270 - original firehouse - 86-40 122 St Queens (1907-1913) - former volunteer firehouse
Building served as a warehouse and factory: http://queens.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=queens&cdn=citiestowns&tm=24&gps=652_686_1916_845&f=11&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.richmondhillhistory.org/
Building served as a warehouse and factory: http://queens.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=queens&cdn=citiestowns&tm=24&gps=652_686_1916_845&f=11&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.richmondhillhistory.org/
Unknown volunteer firehouse - 323 W 21st St Chelsea (approx 1865-1875)
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/search/label/chelsea
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Chelsea_Fire_House_323_West_21st_St.jpg
323 W. 21st St: - property rented by Andy Warhol
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/search/label/chelsea
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Chelsea_Fire_House_323_West_21st_St.jpg
323 W. 21st St: - property rented by Andy Warhol
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carriage house (1880s/1920), 31 Pineapple Street, Brooklyn Heights, New York by lumierefl, on Flickr
"Converted Brooklyn Fire Department stable ? building conversion completed 1920, 11 years after first motorized fire apparatus in NYC" Sold in 2003 for $1.6 M
Engine 286 - original firehouse - 74-01 Cypress Hill St (1913) - former firehouse of volunteer company Ivanhoe Ladder 10
http://www.timesnewsweekly.com/sites/www.timesnewsweekly.com/files/archives/Archives2001/091301/NewFiles/OURNEIGH.html
Currently private home:
http://www.timesnewsweekly.com/sites/www.timesnewsweekly.com/files/archives/Archives2001/091301/NewFiles/OURNEIGH.html
Currently private home:
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E285/L142 is similar to E94/L48 and E268/L137mack said:Engine 285/Ladder 142 103-17 98th Street (built 1915 - still active)
Past:
Present:
Hose Company 15 (volunteer companies Victory and Fulton)/Hook and Ladder 4 (Eagle) - former firehouse - Eldridge St (Hose Co 15 1847-1859, H&L 4 1850-1864)
Hose Company 15 LODDs:
Fireman Wall - killed responding to fire
Fireman Robert McCausland - killed responding to fire
Fireman James Glasgow - killed April 15, 1840 by collapse at match factory fire (with a member of Engine 30)
Current use as restaurant:
Hose Company 15 LODDs:
Fireman Wall - killed responding to fire
Fireman Robert McCausland - killed responding to fire
Fireman James Glasgow - killed April 15, 1840 by collapse at match factory fire (with a member of Engine 30)
Current use as restaurant:
Great Kills Engine 1/Constitution H&L 1 - Staten Island volunteer companies - firehouse - 22 Hillside Terrace Great Kills (organized 1890)
Constitution H&L 1:
Firehouse currently Knights of Columbus Hall:
http://kofc1662.webs.com/partyhallrental.htm
Constitution H&L 1:
Firehouse currently Knights of Columbus Hall:
http://kofc1662.webs.com/partyhallrental.htm
Ladder 8 - current firehouse - 14 N Moore St (built 1905 - renovated 1915)
Originally built to house the 2-section ladder company, the firehouse was cut in half in 1915 to accommodate the widening of Varick Street.
Original double ladder company firehouse:
Current L8 firehouse:
Ladder 8 history:
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/11/1904-hook-and-ladder-company-no-8-14.html
Hook & Ladder No. 8 firehouse was used for exterior shots of the Ghostbusters' Headquarters in both the original movie and the sequel.
Note - Thanks to Gman for photo correction.
Originally built to house the 2-section ladder company, the firehouse was cut in half in 1915 to accommodate the widening of Varick Street.
Original double ladder company firehouse:
Current L8 firehouse:
Ladder 8 history:
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/11/1904-hook-and-ladder-company-no-8-14.html
Hook & Ladder No. 8 firehouse was used for exterior shots of the Ghostbusters' Headquarters in both the original movie and the sequel.
Note - Thanks to Gman for photo correction.