NYC Museums: New York Fire Department Museum

By Tia Dryer


The New York Fire Dep. has a proud and illustrious history of saving lives and keeping N. Y. Residents safe, and the New York City Fire Museum celebrates that history. The location calls to mind early 20th century New York City at the boom time of its success, when rapid expansion and meteoric rise in the immigrant population made firefighting more crucial than ever before. The New York Fire Department Museum looks specifically at firefighting and how it has developed through the years to what it's become today. From hand painted leather belts and buckets to boots and helmets and even old style equipment, the Museum of the FDNY has everything you could hope to see if you've got an interest in how the FDNY has evolved and changed over throughout. If you're the type that is at all fascinated by the golden era or the history of firefighters, it's worth a trip to stop by the New York City Fire Museum.



The Fire Museum is located on the western edge of the trendy Soho neighborhood in Manhattan. This fashionable neighborhood is more well commonly known as a locale for restaurants and shopping specialised shops than as a hot spot for museums in Manhattan, but if you are having a shopping day in Manhattan and want to break up the monotony with some history of New York firefighting, all you have got to do is go west on Spring Street and it's easy to find the museum. The neighborhood is relatively simple to get to, as it is a major shopping center for people from all around NYC, and a range of public transportation service both the Houston St. Station and the Spring St. Station nearby.

The most important draw of the New York City Fire Museum is the variety of historic firefighting items like clothing, equipment and trucks from as far in the past as the 18th century. Those items includelanterns, leather buckets, axes, helmets and one of the first fire engines ever built, the 1790 "Farnam" engine. Rescue and oxygen breathing equipment from the early 1900s is also on view, which gives a sense for just how dangerous fires were before the appearance of modern firefighting apparatus. The evolution of firefighting is told at the Museum of the FDNY, offering visitors the opportunity to understand what the life of a NYC firefighter was like and how it has modified through the years.

Also, a favored program for children held by the New York City Fire Museum combines the history of firefighting with helpful info to understand in the in case of a fire. This professionally guided tour of the museum is provided by a retired New York firefighter who can supplement the info in the museum with real experiences from his life fighting fires as the technology has changed. Children are also trained on the correct procedures to follow in a pretend fire event. A flat is set up to look as it'd if there were a fire, and children learn where to go, what to do and what should not be done. Fire hazards are identified, and escape methods are practiced.




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