Saturday night marked the end of the annual CMJ festival, that time of year when people wearing laminated rectangles crowd the city's sidewalks and the words "Diarrhea Planet" are spoken with utmost sincerity. SPIN's showcase at an old, converted firehouse in Chinatown that featured A-Trak, the Rapture and Crystal Castles left us deaf, sweaty, and really needing to pee.
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Photos: Crystal Castles, The Rapture, A-Trak At SPIN's CMJ Showcase
20 Firehouses, Including The Ghostbusters Firehouse, Saved!
The firehouses will not be closing. As part of the same City Council budget agreement that saved 4,100 teacher jobs the 20 fire companies that were being threatened with closure, including the Ghostbusters firehouse, have been saved. Protesting works!
The Ghostbusters Firehouse Could Be Shut Down!
The FDNY needs to cut something to make its next budget and once again that something seems to be firehouses. Among the 20 firehouses on the chopping block? No less than the Hook & Ladder No. 8 Firehouse, which you might remember from such films as Ghostbusters. The news of the at-risk firehouses has people and politicians across the city up in arms as it looks to the average joe that the city is putting lives at risk so as to save "less than a thousandth of Bloomberg's $69 billion budget."
FDNY Releases List Of 20 At Risk Firehouses
With the FDNY's much-maligned crash tax plan nixed, the department has millions of dollars to cut out of its budget which and unfortunately for the cash-strapped department that means once again closing firehouses. Though the mayor and the FDNY had been working on a list of which houses are on the block, they had been refusing to share it until the City Council forced their hand by threatening to subpoena the list. If you live in Brooklyn, you may want to double check your smoke alarms and fire extinguishers—eight of the 20 companies on the list are located in Kings County, four are in Queens, three are in the Bronx, another three are in Manhattan and two are on Staten Island.
Firehouse Closures: First Horseman Of The Budget Apocalypse?
For years now, Mayor Bloomberg has proposed/threatened to close 20 fire companies as a budget-plugging measure. But for the last two years, the City Council has used its discretionary funds to keep them going. This year, with a dire $600 million budget gap, time may have run out for those fire companies.
New Roles for Former Firehouses
Five years after they were closed, two firehouses in Brooklyn have found new purposes: classical music and firefighter advocacy. Engine 204 house at 299 DeGraw in Cobble Hill is being taken over by the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The orchestra has pledged to invest $2.6 million converting the building into administrative offices for the group as well as creating performance space.
Firehouse Emblems, Nicknames Scrutinized
Following two incidents in recent years that highlighted the occasionally raucous atmospheres of City firehouses, the FDNY is cracking down on what it considers improper names for certain houses, like the Happy Hookers in Red Hook, Southern Comfort on Staten Island, Animal House in the Bronx, and The Nut House in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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