"The Whole Tree Gone" (Firehouse 12), her first as a leader in more than three years, is a knockout by any standard, including the bar set by her previous work.
Since then, the leaders of the volunteer firehouse have been navigating the serpentine process of acquiring approvals for the project from state and city agencies.
But one fatal nighttime fire in a neighborhood with a closed firehouse, and the city and its leaders would be held responsible.
He was among the religious leaders who sat in a nearby firehouse with families waiting to be reunited with their children.
"Not having a library is like not having a firehouse or a school," said Rosemarie Ryba, Rebecca's mother and one of the Girl Scout leaders and a member of the initial start-up committee.
Leaders of the local Amish community were gathering Saturday afternoon at a firehouse to decide the future of the schoolhouse, and of the school year itself.
At Chrysler's annual party in an unused firehouse near the Cobo Convention Center, DaimlerChrysler's chairman, Dieter Zetsche, gratefully accepted the Automotive Hall of Fame award for industry leader of the year.
The city has agreed not to sell a vacant firehouse in Brooklyn, ending a four-year battle between the Bloomberg administration and community activists and local leaders.
Cheyane Caldwell, a leader in the Stentorians, a group that has represented black firefighters since the days of segregated firehouses.
Among friends and behind closed doors in Sun Valley, though, the mayor spoke amiably and openly, touching on subjects ranging from the difficulty of closing firehouses and dealing with labor leaders to the reluctance of his own advisers to contradict him, audience members said.
