New York City Fire Museum

The New York City Fire Museum is housed in an old fire station, built in 1904, in SoHo (278 Spring Street, between Varick and Hudson Streets ), New York City. The three wheelchair accessible floors rescue equipment and tools are shown from several centuries, including the possibly oldest steam engine in North America (built in 1790). She stood over a 100 years.

Ground floor

Old vehicles, hand and steam-powered syringes. In a room of 343 fire fighters is thought to have died during the evacuation of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.

Among the machines on display include:

  • Said syringe after " Farnam " ( built in New York in 1790 )
  • A syringe in a box like a piano
  • A Goose - Neck- Pumper
  • A Philadelphia - syringe with double tank
  • Steinway pants No. 7
  • Astoria pants No. 8
  • LaFrance steam engine from 1901 with horse clothing from Brooklyn
  • A gas-powered Van Blerck Tractor from 1912 with pump
  • A horse -covered wagon
  • An American La France pump of 1921

1st floor

The museum also has a collection of over 2000 insurance plaques that marked the houses whose insurance coverage.

The modern equipment and personal protective clothing is issued.

2nd floor

These spaces can like for celebrations be rented.

Photo Gallery

Memorial Room at the FDNY Fire Museum.

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