Engine Company 16 Firehouse
223 East 25th Street | Kips Bay | built 1915
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1883
Napoleon LeBrun & Sons complete a Victorian Gothic firehouse for Engine Co. 16
Architects Napoleon LeBrun & Sons design a Victorian Gothic firehouse for the fire department, with construction running from November 1882 to April 1883. The firm reuses a design nearly identical to its firehouse at 209 Elizabeth Street. Engine Company 16 occupies the East 25th Street building for the next eight decades.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1903
A rescued tenant dies despite Engine Company 16's daring effort
Responding to a boarding house fire at First Avenue and 15th Street, Engine Company 16 firefighters William McNally and James McEvoy climb ladders into the flames to reach a trapped tenant. Both rescuers are badly burned pulling him free, but he dies of his injuries before reaching the hospital. It stands as one of the company's most harrowing calls during its long tenure on East 25th Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1911
A firefighter is caught taking beer through the firehouse skylight
On August 10, 1911, firefighter Walter Hicks is caught receiving beer smuggled up through the firehouse skylight on a cord, a minor scandal that becomes one of Engine Company 16's more talked-about episodes. He forfeits five days' pay, and the story circulates as firehouse lore until the company's 1968 relocation.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1973
The city auctions the vacated firehouse to a Christian Science church
After Engine Company 16 relocates to a new East 29th Street firehouse in 1968, the city auctions the vacant building. On June 19, 1973, representatives of the Ninth Church of Christ, Scientist win the sale for $217,000, far above the opening bid, and convert the ground floor into a church by 1974.
Source: Wikipedia
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- 223 East 25th StreetWikipedia
- Engine Company 16 - 223 East 25th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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