New York City Fire Museum

Coordinates: 40°43′33″N 74°0′25″W / 40.72583°N 74.00694°W / 40.72583; -74.00694

The New York City Fire Museum is located in a renovated 1904 firehouse

The New York City Fire Museum is located in the former quarters of FDNY Engine Company No. 30, a renovated 1904 fire house at 278 Spring Street between Varick and Hudson Streets in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The museum cares for over 10,000 objects as well as an archive of records, ephemera and photographs estimated in the tens of thousands of pieces celebrating the history of the fire service and the New York City Fire Department. Examples of modern day firefighting equipment are also on permanent display at the museum as well as a permanent memorial to the 343 members of the FDNY-EMS lost at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

History

The Steinway Hose No. 7

The FDNY's original museum opened as the Fire College Museum in Long Island City in 1934. In 1959 the collection was moved to the spare bay of a working firehouse at 100 Duane Street in Manhattan, where it remained until the Home Insurance Company presented its own extensive collection of fire memorabilia to the city in 1981, making a move to larger space imperative. A new non-profit, The Friends of the New York City Fire Department Collection, was created to raise funds to renovate the former quarters of Engine Company No. 30, a 1904 Beaux-Arts firehouse on Spring Street, and in 1987, the New York City Fire Museum opened to the public.

Exhibits in the museum demonstrate the changes in firefighting practices from bucket brigades to carriages to engines. The evolution of the department itself, from volunteer firefighters to municipal fire departments is also covered. The museum also houses a special memorial to the 343 members of the FDNY who lost their lives in the September 11 attacks. This memorial includes artifacts recovered from the World Trade Center site, as well as a monument commemorating each firefighter who made the Supreme Sacrifice.^[1]

The collection goes back more than 250 years, to a time when the Dutch still governed Manhattan. As a result, the museum displays only 3% of its entire collection at any one time.^[2]

Retired FDNY firefighters are often on hand to educate the public on firefighting history as well as to relate personal anecdotes.

The museum is also very active in fire safety and prevention education and has a mock apartment highlighting fire hazards for its kindergarten though 12th-grade programs.

The New York City Fire Museum attracts approximately 40,000 visitors a year. Attendance at the museum spiked to 46,000 visitors in 2002 following the September 11th attacks and has since leveled off.^[3]

Permanent exhibitions

"Firefighting on Parade" at the New York City Fire Museum

The New York City Fire Museum tells the story of the early days of firefighting in New York City.^[4] The collection is home to firefighting artifacts and equipment dating back to the 1650s, such as carriages, engines, fire marks, buckets, trumpets, helmets, lanterns, rattles, and uniforms. Permanent exhibitions include: Firefighting on Parade, Romance of Firefighting, Fire Apparatus, and Tools and Uniforms. The museum also has an extensive collection of fire insurance marks.^[4]

References

Notes

↑ "About Our Museum". New York City Fire Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/nyregion/firefighting-the-old-school-way.html
↑ "Fire museum traffic falls after 9/11 spike.". New York Times. Feb 15, 2004. p. N29. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
1 2 "Permanent Exhibitions". New York City Fire Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2012.

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New York City Fire Department

Facilities	Firehouse, Engine Company 31 Firehouse, Engine Company 33 and Ladder Company 9 Firehouse, Hook & Ladder Company 8 MetroTech Center New York City Fire Museum Plane Space

Fireboats	Abram S. Hewitt Bravest Fire Fighter Fire Fighter II John D. McKean Fireboat John H. Glenn Jr. John J. Harvey John P. Devaney Seth Low Smoke II The New Yorker Three Forty Three Willam M. Feehan Zophar Mills

History	23rd Street Fire Great Fire of New York (1776) Great Fire of New York (1835) Great Fire of New York (1845) 1975 New York Telephone Exchange fire

Organizations	FDNY Racing New York City Fire Commissioner New York City Fire Department Bureau of EMS New York City Fire Department Ladder Company 3 Oceanic H&L Company No. 1 New York City Fire Department Rescue Company 1 Richmond Engine Co. 1 New York City Fire Department Squad Company 1 Uniformed Fire Officers Association Uniformed Firefighters Association

Media	9/11

Related	Emergency workers killed in the September 11 attacks New York Fire Patrol Raising the Flag at Ground Zero Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center

Museums in Manhattan

Current	American Academy of Arts and Letters American Folk Art Museum American Museum of Natural History Rose Center for Earth and Space Asia Society Asian American Arts Centre Castle Clinton Center for Jewish History Children's Museum of Manhattan China Institute The Cloisters Drawing Center Dyckman House El Museo del Barrio Eldridge Street Synagogue Ellis Island Federal Hall National Memorial Fraunces Tavern Frick Collection FusionArts Museum George Gustav Heye Center Girl Scout Museum and Archives Gracie Mansion Grolier Club Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Hamilton Grange National Memorial Hispanic Society of America International Center of Photography International Print Center New York Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame Japan Society Jewish Museum John J. Harvey John M. Mossman Lock Museum Lower East Side Tenement Museum Madame Tussauds Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center Merchant's House Museum Met Breuer Metropolitan Museum of Art Mmuseumm Morgan Library & Museum Morris–Jumel Mansion Mount Vernon Hotel Museum The Museum at FIT Museum of American Finance Museum of Arts and Design Museum of Biblical Art Museum of Chinese in America Museum of Jewish Heritage Museum of Mathematics Museum of Modern Art Museum of Motherhood Museum of Primitive Art Museum of Sex Museum of the City of New York National Academy Museum and School National Jazz Museum in Harlem National Track and Field Hall of Fame Neue Galerie New York New Museum New York City Fire Museum New York City Police Museum New York Public Library New York Public Library for the Performing Arts New York Transit Museum New-York Historical Society Paley Center for Media Nicholas Roerich Museum Rose Museum Rubin Museum of Art Scandinavia House Skyscraper Museum South Street Seaport Museum Statue of Liberty Studio Museum in Harlem The Theatre Museum Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Tibet House Ukrainian Museum United Nations Art Collection Whitney Museum of American Art Yeshiva University Museum

Defunct	Chelsea Art Museum Dahesh Museum of Art Forbes Galleries Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art

See also: Museum Mile

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New York City Fire Museum

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Permanent exhibitions

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References

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