She has set her sights on a shuttered old Brooklyn firehouse in Cobble Hill, which was once home to Engine 204.
In something of a split decision, the city selected developers to remake two closed firehouses in Brooklyn on Friday, giving one to a firefighter advocacy group in Williamsburg but overlooking a similar group and choosing instead the Brooklyn Philharmonic to redevelop a firehouse in Cobble Hill.
He told Hill that he had his eye on a former firehouse that was for sale.
Architects are drafting plans for a new firehouse to replace the 50-year-old Stony Hill station on Route 6.
The unsuccessful Cobble Hill group, Friends of Firefighters, had hoped to turn the decommissioned firehouse of Engine 204 at 299 DeGraw Street into a counseling and therapy center, as well as a community center with an emphasis on fire safety.
They reflected when told of his lifelong love for the city's Fire Department: growing up in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, he could see the local firehouse, known in the community as the castle on the hill, from a window in his house.
At Engine Company 204 in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, the police used two vans to cart away 12 protesters who had invaded the firehouse to keep it alive.
Engine Company 204 on Degraw Street in Cobble Hill was one of five units closed or relocated during budget cuts in 2003, leaving their firehouses empty.
Just up the hill and around the corner from Rockport Harbor, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (162 Russell Avenue, 207-236-2875) occupies a former firehouse.
