Fireboats from the water and fire engines on land battled for over 8 hours to extinguisher four warehouses ablaze along Atlantic Basin’s Commercial Wharf, January 16, 1954. Twenty-one fighters and two policemen were injured. Fifteen of those...

In 1797 the closest fire company to Red Hook was Neptune Engine 2, located a fair distance away at Hicks Street and Atlantic Avenue.  It was not until 1861, well after the opening of Atlantic Docks, that the neighborhood got its own company, Hope...

Street address: 199 Van Brunt Street

Engine 279 / Ladder 131 are affectionately known as the Happy Hookers.  Here is their  Instagram page  and their Facebook page For more on the companies' history see Dispatcher 350 Mike Boucher's  Red Hook And It’s Fire...

Street address: 252 Lorraine Street
Brooklyn, New York 11203
[Emergency: dial 911]

FDNY Engine 202/Ladder 101 Battalion 32 is located at 31 Richards Street, right near the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel Street entrance.  They are known as the Red Hook Raiders .   Engine 202 and Ladder 101 went into service as Engine 2 and...

Street address: Engine 202/Ladder 101
31 Richards Street
Brooklyn NY 11203
[Emergency: dial 911]