Compare and contrast two more old-style cast iron police and fire call boxes. What stands out is the torch on the one on the right. While it references fire, it’s completely decorative, like a miniature version of what the Statue of Liberty carries.
Posts Tagged ‘firemen’
More police and fire call boxes
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, firemen, photography, police, police and fire call box on June 27, 2009| 1 Comment »
Fire training, with a view
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn promenade, firemen, photography, the bravest, view of lower manhattan on April 28, 2009| 1 Comment »
Firemen appeared to be having a training exercise at a building on the Brooklyn waterfront. The people at the Brooklyn Promenade were eating it up … the scene was sooo New Yorky: a glorious view of downtown Manhattan, the East River, and wee firemen running fearlessly and nonchalantly up the firetruck’s ladder.
Firetruck at Foodt
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, bundt, firemen, firetruck, grocery store, photography, snow on February 4, 2009| 1 Comment »
Firemen fighting hunger, not fire, at the grocery store. I hear they have a nice bundt cake at Foodt.
Firemen @ Foodtown
Posted in Food, Transportation, tagged bravest, brooklyn, dinner, firemen, firetruck, grocery store, nyc, photography on December 29, 2008| 1 Comment »
The Bravest aren’t rushing anywhere in this phone picture, just to Foodtown on McDonald Ave.