Gothamist: The End Of The Firepatrol?

Harry Matthews

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:33:02 -0500

The loss of the Fire Patrol will be a terrbile loss to Village mythologists. The Patrol house on West 3rd Street, just off LaGuardia Place, is a well-documented haunted house, where a deceased patrolman knew his last happy days. Replacing his documented haunts with luxury condos would be, frankly, obscene. There are only so many haunted houses in New York, and we can't afford to lose any of them! Let's look for alternative uses.

Liz Maher

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:54:52 -0500

I guess if the buildings in NYC are so fire proof and do not need the Fire Patrol why do they need the Fire Department to put out fires? This is the question to the last persons comment on the Patrol. My husband has worked at Fire Patrol 1 for 16 years and I am insulted at the demening comments about my husbands job.

dumb

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:33:11 -0500

Wannabees. Every other city in the country has gotten rid of these guys, and there's no reason for us to keep them around either. Many of the places they would go to "save" stuff from anyway (offices, expensive retail) are also much less likely to have serious fires because of the type of structure and modern detection/supression systems.