INSIDE PITCH David Wright, continuing a yearly tradition, paid a visit to a local firehouse — this year, Squad 18 in Greenwich Village — on Monday in remembrance of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Paying Tribute David Wright, continuing a yearly tradition, paid a visit to a local firehouse — this year, Squad 18 in Greenwich Village —Monday in remembrance of the Sept. 11 attacks.
OUTSIDE the redbrick firehouse of Squad 288 and Hazmat 1 in Maspeth, Queens, you can look across the Long Island Expressway to the Manhattan skyline.
There is the elite Squad 1 firehouse in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where he is stationed.
Mr. Bloomberg's final firehouse stop was at Squad Company 41 in the South Bronx, where the firefighters were out, answering an alarm, but where family members lingered.
When he came to the Squad 1 firehouse in Park Slope, Brooklyn, last year, he convinced everyone there that his previous profession had been that of a barber for a funeral home.
He was on his way home to Staten Island from the night shift at the Squad 1 firehouse in Park Slope, Brooklyn, when he learned the Twin Towers had been hit and had burst into flames.
In the short term, when the widows from the Squad 1 firehouse talk about their children, they talk about the bad dreams and the empty birthdays, the fights between brothers, the kids having to wear diapers to bed again.
The Maspeth firehouse, Hazardous Materials Company 1, Squad 288, commands a direct view of Lower Manhattan, six miles to the west.
THOMAS KUVEIKIS Lovable and Complicated Tommy K. was a fine carpenter, so the guys happily let him build a steam room in Squad 252's firehouse.
