FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies

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Brooklyn firehouses 1979:




Changes - disbanded companies/battalions/divisions; new firehouses:


 
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Water Towers served in FDNY and BFD from 1879-1957, 78 years.  They were assigned as follows:

        Unit                      Boro              Dates              Location
    Water Tower 1        Manhattan      1879-1957    Engine 7, Engine 31
    Water Tower 1 BFD  Brooklyn          1895-1903    Former volunteer firehouse
    Water Tower 2        Manhattan      1882-1957    Ladder 3, Engine 72 (Manhattan)
    Water Tower 3        Manhattan      1891-1957    Ladder 21, Ladder 24
    Water Tower 4        Manhattan      1904-1957    Ladder 26
    Water Tower 5    Brooklyn/Queens  1932-1957    Engine 251 (Brooklyn), Engine 261
    Water Tower 6        Brooklyn          1903-1957    Ladder 68 (Ladder 118), Engine 251 (Brooklyn), Rescue 2, Engine 208, Engine 211
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Water Tower 5 was also quartered with Engine 260 (1947-1957)
 
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Staten Island firehouse locations 1978:

   

Changes to come:

Rescue 5 - reorganized
Division 8 - reorganized
Engine 154 -reorganized/new firehouse
Ladder 87 - organized
Engine 168 - organized/new firehouse
SI Communications Office - disbanded - consolidated


Staten Island firehouses - Youtube:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izuadzXj6-k
 
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FDNY Storehouse Myrtle Avenue near South Elliot Place, Brooklyn

    Built 1907
    Demolished 1940 for Fort Greene housing project

Design:




FDNY Real Estate 1908:



1940:







 
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from the 1929 HYDE Atlas, Volume 1, Plate 106
 

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Engine 63  firehouses - Wakefield, Bronx, NY  "Top of da Bronx"

    Engine 63 organized White Plains Rd and St Ouen Place former volunteer firehouse  1896
    Engine 63 moved to new firehouse 687 East 240 Street                                  1896
    Engine 63 moved to new firehouse 4109 White Plains Road                            1909
    Engine 63 moved to new firehouse 755 East 233 Street                                  1971
    Engine 63 firehouse 755 East 233 Street remodeled                                2011-2013

    Note - Wakefield Village volunteer fire companies were:  Americus Ladder, Nereid Engine 1, George Washington Hose located White Plains Road and East 240 Street

   
Wakefield 1900: 
   


Engine 63 original firehouse White Plains Road and East 240 Street (formerly St Ouen Place and Bronx Place):
   
Co-located with NYPD 39th Precinct

   

4109 White Plains Road engine house design 1907:
   

4109 White Plains Road 1954:
   

4109 White Plains Road 2003:
   

   

4109 White Plains Road currently EMS Station 15:
   



Engine 63/Ladder 39/Battalion 15 firehouse 755 East 233 Street  Wakefield  Bronx (before remodeling):
   



Engine 63/Ladder 39/Battalion 15 755 East 233 St firehouse -current:
   

   


Engine 63:
   

   

   

   


755 East 233rd Street quarters and apparatus:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZsF2z8rPvk


E 63 LODD - FF Edward J. Curtin  7/17/54  Box 5-7-3874 -

   
   
    Never Forget


Company website:
    http://www.fdnyengine63.com/news/index/layoutfile/home


Centennial:
    http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/events/2009/042409b.shtml


Woodlawn Heights/Wakefield:
    http://forgotten-ny.com/2003/07/borderline-crazy-part-ii-part-two-in-a-series-exploring-nycs-boundaries-with-other-municipalities-second-in-the-series-the-bronx-wakefield/


   


 
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    Engine 63 firehouse 755 East 233 Street remodeled                                2011-2013
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Renovations began in June 0f 2011 and were completed "Late 2013"

Does anyone know months or approximate/actual dates?
 
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Engine 220/Ladder 122 (also Battalion 48)  firehouses  530/532 East 11th Street  Park Slope, Brooklyn

    Engine 20 BFD organized 532 East 11th Street                                      1882
    Engine 20 BFD became Engine 20 FDNY                                                1898
    Engine 20 became Engine 120                                                              1899
    Engine 120 new firehouse 530 East 11th Street                                    1907
    Engine 120 became Engine 220                                                            1913
    Engine 120 moved to 1309 Prospect Avenue at Engine 240                    1996
    Engine 220 returned 530 East 11th Street                                            1997

    Ladder 72 organized 532 East 11th Street former firehouse Engine 120    1907
    Ladder 72 became Ladder 122                                                              1913
    Ladder 122 moved to 395 4th Avenue at Engine 239                              1996
    Ladder 122 returned 532 East 11th Street                                            1997

    Battalion 48 organized 395 4th Avenue at Engine 139                            1906
    Battalion 48 moved to 530 East 11th Street at Engine 220                      1930
    Battalion 48 moved to 1309 Prospect Avenue at Engine 240                    1978


Engine 20 BFD in front of 532 East 11th Street:


Engine 20 BFD:



532 East 11th Street firehouse built in 1882 for Engine 20 BFD and became quarters Ladder 72 (122):





530 East 11th Street firehouse built by FDNY in 1907 for Engine 220:


    http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2013/06/building-of-the-day-530-532-11th-street/


530/532 East 11th Street:



















Engine 220 1947 ALF pumper:



Ladder 122 1952:



Ladder 122:








Engine 220 responding:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca89RQk8Oic

Ladder 122:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BRW-h5N8XM



Engine 220 proposed closing:

   

    May 18, 2011: Twenty New York City Fire Department companies were slated for closure in July ? three in the Bronx, eight in Brooklyn, two on Staten Island, four in Queens and three in Manhattan. The list of proposed closures included Engine 220:

E 4 42 South St. Manhattan
E 26 220 West 37th St. Manhattan
E 46 460 Cross Bronx Expwy. Bronx
E 60 341 East 143rd St. Bronx
E 157 1573 Castleton Ave. Staten Island
E 161 278 McClean Ave. Staten Island
E 205 74 Middagh St. Brooklyn
E 206 1201 Grand St. Brooklyn
E 218 650 Hart St. Brooklyn
E 220 530 11th St. Brooklyn
E 233 25 Rockaway Ave. Brooklyn
E 284 1157 79th St. Brooklyn
E 294 101-20 Jamaica Ave. Queens
E 306 40-18 214th Place Queens
E 328 16-19 Central Ave. Queens
L 8 14 North Moore St. Manhattan
L 53 169 Schofield Ave. Bronx
L 104 161 South 2nd St. Brooklyn
L 128 33-51 Greenpoint Ave. Queens
L 161 2929 W 8th St. Brooklyn



Engine 220/Ladder 122/Battalion 48 LODDs:

    FF William Chin, Engine 120 (220) fell from wagon January 3, 1890

   

   


    FF Eugene F. Steffens, Ladder 122, KIA World War II, US Army Air Forces, shot down over Germany on mission, August 5, 1944

   


    FF John W Leary, Ladder 122, US Army, KIA World War II, February 8, 1945:

   


    Battalion Chief John J. Dooley, Battalion 48, injured April 16, 1931 responding to Brooklyn Box 2678, 10001 Liberty Avenue, died June 6, 1931:

   


Park Slope, Brooklyn:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Slope

    http://www.brooklynpix.com/catalog36f.php?locality_no=12601

   


Park Slope Plane Crash - December 16, 1960:

   

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_New_York_mid-air_collision







 
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Engine 220 and Ladder 122 responded 1st due on the 2nd alarm to the Park Slope plane crash.  Bn 48 responded on initial alarm.

Box 1231:

1st alarm - E 269, E 280, E 219, L 105, L 132, Bn 48
7-5 - Rescue 2, Div 10
2nd alarm - E 220, E 226, E 256, L 122
3rd alarm - E 210, E 239, E 204, E 207, L 110
4th alarm - E 249, E 235, E 203, E 209, L 113
5th alarm - E 240, E 248, E 279, L 102

Simultaneous Call - 77-1231-66-22-174
1st alarm - E 9, E 5, E 31
2nd alarm - E 17, E 15, E 7, E 27

Special Calls:  R 1, R 3

    Note - Disbanded companies in blue.


Brooklyn damage:  Ten brownstones near the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Sterling Place were set on fire, as were a funeral home, a laundry, a delicatessen and the Pillar of Fire Church. Eighty-four people on the flight died, and six people on the ground also were killed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwTtgC-k1Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjYyBCuysG0










 
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Engine 220/L 122 firehouses are a few of the side-by-side firehouses built in NYC.  They reflect the different architectural styles of the periods constructed - 1880s and 1900s as well as the changes in the Park Slope neighborhood:




Others Bronx examples:

Engine 73/Ladder 42  Bronx:





Engine 45/Ladder 58/Battalion 18 Bronx:



Engine 64/Ladder 47 Bronx:



Engine 46/Ladder 27 Bronx:



 
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Ladder 3 and Water Tower 2 used to have adjacent quarters on E 13th Street before current firehouse was built in 1929 on same site:



Engine 52/Ladder 52 firehouse was built next to their old firehouse in 1939:





 
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Engine 261/Ladder 116/Collapse Rescue Unit 4  firehouses Long Island City, Queens, NY

    Engine 3 Long Island City Fire Department organized 38-08 28th Street    1892
    Engine 3 LICFD became Engine 4 FDNY                                                  1898
    Engine 4 became Engine 161                                                                  1899
    Engine 161 became Engine 261                                                              1913
    Engine 261 new firehouse 37-20 29th Street                                          1932
    Engine 261 disbanded                                                                          2003

    Ladder 2 Long Island City Fire Department organized 443 Buckley Street    1894
    Ladder 2 LICFD became Ladder 16 FDNY                                                  1898
    Ladder 16 became Ladder 66                                                                  1898
    Ladder 66 new firehouse 38-11 Northern Boulevard                                  1904
    Ladder 66 became Ladder 116                                                                1913
    Ladder 116 moved 37-20 29th Street at Engine 261                                1947
    Ladder 116 moved 11-15 37th Avenue at Engine 260                              1997
    Ladder 116 moved 37-20 29th Street at Engine 261                                1997

    Collapse Rescue Unit 4 organized 37-20 29th Street at Ladder 116            2005


Long Island City was formerly a city, created in 1870, from the merger of the Long Island village of Astoria and the hamlets of Ravenswood, Hunters Point, Blissville, Sunnyside, Dutch Kills, Steinway, Bowery Bay and Middleton in Newtown Township. It was a separate city until it became part of New York City in 1898.

    LIC 1873 map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/1873_Beers_Map_of_Astoria_and_Long_Island_City,_Queens,_New_York_-_Geographicus_-_LongIslandCity-beers-1873.jpg

Long Island City Fire Department was a paid fire department which protected Long Island City in the 1890s before it became part of New York City in 1898.  LICFD companies entered FDNY in 1989 and were renumbered in 1898 and later in 1913.

Long Island City volunteer fire companies 1890:                               
   

Long Island City Fire Department companies 1897:
   


Engine 261 original 38-08 28th Street firehouse:
   

38-08 28th Street former firehouse:
   

   

   



Ladder 116 (Ladder 16) original firehouse 443 Buckley Street (original volunteer and LICFD firehouse):
   

   


Ladder 116 (Ladder 66) former firehouse 38-11 Northern Boulevard: In 1900, FDNY Commissioner JJ Scannell proposed a sweeping expansion of fire service citywide, but especially in underserved Long Island City. The ?Board of Estimate and Apportionment? was asked to make funds available for infrastructure- specifically fire houses. Built concurrently with Engine 258 fire house at 10-40 47th Avenue, the building was budgeted to cost $18,000 to build and complete in 1901, but ended up costing $23,000 when it was dedicated in 1905.  Firehouse  was designed and overseen by Ernest Flagg, architect of the US Naval Academy.  Former firehouse is used by NYPD (see following 68jk09 post):

   

   

   

   

    http://newtownpentacle.com/2009/07/16/hook-and-ladder-66/

    http://newtownpentacle.com/2009/07/31/hook-and-ladder-66-updated/


37-20 29th Street:
   
     
   

   

   

   

   



Engine 261:
   

   

   

   

   


Ladder 116 (Ladder 16) originally assigned this model apparatus:
   


Ladder 116 (Ladder 66) in front of 38-11 Northern Boulevard:
   


Ladder 116:
   

   

   

   

   


Collapse Rescue Unit 4:
   

   


Ladder 116 NYPD support:
   



Ladder 116 responding:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMKxxK3Da8g

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXmm4iPNho



Engine 261 disbanded 2003:
    http://www.qchron.com/editions/western/engine-closes-its-doors-but-city-is-taken-to-court/article_9960b998-9be5-5635-9130-b377822d0cfb.html



Engine 261 LODD - FF Michael Emmett, died July 26, 1900 from injuries received in quarters exercising horses:

   


Ladder 116 LODD - LT Lames A.O'Brien , died April 16, 1930 from pneumonia following burn injury received March 17, 1930:

   

   


    Never forget.


Long Island City:

    http://www.queenswestvillager.com/about/detail/history_of_long_island_city

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_City










 
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As always...great history post mack.... just one note....the old 116 FH on Northern Blvd is not an ESU response qtrs....there are NYPD Special Operations Units quartered there but they are medical in nature that deal w/sick/ injured PD MOS & provide home services like oxygen etc sort of like our old Oxygen Therapy Unit etc .....the ESU Truck Ten Units that cover this area (as well as most of North Queens) responds out of the 109 Pct on Union St in Flushing.
 
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Diablo,

82/31 were among the busiest companies in the job almost from the moment they were organized. The reason is simple: population density.

The IRT subway was continued up through that portion of the Bronx as an elevated line in the early 1900's. Even before it was built  speculators gobbled up the land to build apartment houses knowing that commuters would move there from Manhattan. The Longwood neighborhood arose rapidly from farmland. It became the most densely populated area of the Bronx.

Notice that other than Crotona Park, there were no obstacles to blocks upon blocks of apartment houses. The area between the 3d Ave EL through Morrisania and the El up lower Westchester ave and Southern Blvd (eventually up along White Plains Rd) was saturated with people. Just like the Lower East Side, East Harlem, and Brownsville in Brooklyn,  lotsa people meant lotsa work for the FDNY.

Even today,  with the old buildings all burned down and gone,  replaced by townhouses and garden apsrtments, 82/31 are still in the top 50. Similar to 58/26 in Harlem, their reponse area is wide, unblocked by large parks, rivers, college campus, etc.
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Thank you sir for clearing this up for me.
 
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