New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-31
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NEW FIRE HEIDQUARrsRS
THx YiREPRooy BUILDING IN 67rE-sr. MIA
READY ION

T1ix PiREPRoor BUILDING IN 67rK-sr. NEARLY
READY ocCUPA~rs.
In few weeks the Fire Department will
move uptown into Ia new headquarters In Sixty
sevenss-st Thirdave. The building Ia nearly
finished and would have been complsted more than
month ago but fJr the delay caused by strikes II
handsome nreproof structure designed by e Brun and
10 10 intended the SevYork Headquarters to com bine
all the appliances and improv enema Of the modern
system Tie commissioners, tue Building Bureau the
Le-savtDg Corps and the electricians will all have
apartments assigned them In the building.
The structure is not large for the i'm porsant
character o. s occupsnts Its front on Sixty
st. Is only nty feet and extends half way through tue
block; ut the lots In the reas facing Sixty
A., are also retained and will be converted into
enclosed courtyard for drilling nremon and other
purposes The cdfncc OF brick aud stone and IL
RomAassque in troatn enL The ground noor will be
occupied By truck and engine companies The IRE
companies vii. occupy the second floor Tor their
sleeping and bath The building IL ak stories
high and is windows grouped the to
the engine companies while main entrance toward
Ihird-ava into a tower sbHve the root. Two
granite columns stand 1t either side OF the
Zach SUPP oshns the semblanee OF a burning torch.
On the thfsd 1oor the Offices OF the Pre Commits
suers and those Of the secretary OF the Board aud
Assstarts Prom the windows OF the Com m ssioners'
rooms project two msssive brovn<tona BALCONIES sup
ported by richly carved Stone abotments Two black
tablets OF polished granite she entrances .re
inscribed with the Commssioners the date
OF the erection OF the building purposes Above
the be icocs the building OF prosscd stone
topped with mansard root. The fourth floor will
occupied BY the Building Bureau, tho dent
and the attorney occupying front OF
the hoor being Ia Offices and
clerks Tns Life Saving Corps will have lts quarters
In tho Of the nrh ior and windows In the
OF the building have been finished With special refer
enco 10 the drill Of the Life Corps climbing In the
front Of the ffth noor the Buresu OF Combustbes will
have rooms, and Aboys the SIXTH floor tie Pire
Marshal and his sssstantA The greater part OF the
sixth floor will, however, be occupied by telegraph
department. and tho wires from ali parts OF city Will
be brought here; and the alarms viii be received iom
and sent out 70 All parts OF tho city from the Battery
Fordham An elevator 70 thu sixth door aud from
the main entrance iron fire proof sairwsYa Vaults
placed 10 the s0rd walls for the recepto the
records OF tic cepartH ent and there will but
the intertor woodwork aud furniture OF Inaammabe
The tower rss twenty-five feet the roof and
nrst story will be used belfry. Above tbs IL
Observatory, OF the highest points Ia the upper
portion OF the city When the development OF
electricity has advanced THAT further thought
that some use may be made Of tho observatory by
establishing electric fash lights It when the wires
aro out OF order The building lifted for electric lights
a. well as gas but yet there is appropriation Tor
electricity. The structure has the department
~ bO.OOO, sum that Is regarded moderate considering
the desirable character or the work II Ia situated In
what must soon be the centre OF New York. and the
department having Office rents, the building will soon
pay for itself