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In the early morning hours of March 29, 1911, four days after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan killed 165 garment workers, a disaster that led to the state being the first to establish a state Department of Labor, a fire started in the Assembly library. Its cause has never been established; theories suggest either an electrical ...
John Dix, at the time New York's governor, reportedly worked in the building the day after the fire. The state library was held at the New York State Education Building after the fire to 1978. [4] A year after the fire work began on a Legislative Library to replace that which had burned. [4] From March 19, 2011, to August 15, 2011, the New York ...
Library Image Address Historical Note; 1: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Main Branch) Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street: Built after the New York Public Library was formed as a combination of two libraries in the late 1890s. The architectural firm Carrère and Hastings constructed the structure in the Beaux-Arts style, and the structure opened on ...
The New York City Fire Museum is a museum dedicated to the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is housed in the former quarters of the FDNY's Engine Company No. 30, a renovated 1904 fire house at 278 Spring Street between Varick and Hudson Streets.
The FDNY's motto is "New York's Bravest" for fire, and "New York's Best" for EMS. The FDNY serves more than 8.5 million residents within a 302-square-mile (780 km 2) area. [9] The FDNY headquarters is located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, [10] and the FDNY Fire Academy is located on Randalls Island. [11]
A typical New York City Fire Department (FDNY) Ladder Company, also known as a ladder truck. Pictured is an Aerial Ladder Truck operated by Ladder Co. 4, quartered in Manhattan. This is a list of fire departments in New York.
At the 51st State Firemen's Convention held in Hudson in 1923, a resolution signed by the Presidents and Secretaries of both the Volunteer Firemen's Association and the Exempt Firemen's Association of the City of New York said that if the State Association of the Firemen's Home would authorize the erection of a suitable building for a museum ...
Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611. Dierickx, Mary B. (1996). The Architecture of Literacy: The Carnegie Libraries of New York City. New York: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the New York City Dept. of General Services. ISBN 1-56256-717-9.