Faison Firehouse Theater

6 Hancock Place | Morningside Heights | built 1900

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1. 1910

   January 1

   Hook and Ladder Company 40 moves into its new firehouse

   Hook and Ladder Company 40 moved into this Beaux-Arts firehouse on Hancock Place on January 1, 1910, a year after architect Howard E. Constable's design was completed at a cost of about $40,000. The narrow, 28-foot-wide building housed apparatus on the ground floor with firefighters' quarters above, including offices for a battalion chief and company captain.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1999

   The Fire Department abandons the firehouse as trucks outgrow it

   The firehouse's 28-foot width, built to hold a single horse-drawn truck, could no longer fit modern fire apparatus, and by the time choreographer George Faison found the building in 1999 the Fire Department had abandoned it. Hook and Ladder 40's firefighters had won recognition over the decades for dramatic rescues carried out from the Hancock Place station.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 2007

   Fall

   George Faison opens a theater in the former firehouse

   Choreographer George Faison, who had purchased the abandoned firehouse in 1999, opened the Faison Firehouse Theater there in fall 2007 after renovating it in stages. The inaugural performance featured poet and author Maya Angelou, and the venue's 350-seat auditorium later hosted the Center for Contemporary Opera and the Harlem Opera Theater.

   Source: Wikipedia

4. 2026

   The National Action Network buys the former firehouse theater

   In 2026 the National Action Network, the civil rights organization founded by the Reverend Al Sharpton, purchased the former firehouse theater with plans to make it the group's new headquarters, to be renamed for civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. The building had operated as a theater for nearly two decades under George Faison.

   Source: Wikipedia

Further reading

• Faison Firehouse TheaterWikipedia
• The 1909 Hook & Ladder 40 Firehouse -- No. 6 Hancock Pl.Daytonian in Manhattan

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