New York, NY on South of Union Square

South of Union Square

FDNY Engine 87 (Marine)

Changing New York; Firehouse

Park Avenue and East 135th Street.

IMAGE DATE1937

From

Museum of the City of New York

Station house for the FDNY’s Engine 87 (Marine), November 24, 1937.

The Engine 87 marine company was established in 1908, with a station house on the Harlem River at 132nd Street. The company moved to the facility shown in Berenice Abbott’s photo in 1922. Construction of the Harlem River Drive caused the station house to move to the Lower East Side, at the foot of Grand Street in 1954, before the company was disbanded in 1954.

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