FDNY - Squad 18

3-story Romanesque-revival/Classical firehouse completed in 1891. Designed by Napoleon LaBrun & Sons, it is transitional in style and employs handsome face and molded brickwork with terra cotta ornament. The round-arched windows of the third floor, the treatment of the iron framework at the first floor and molded (checkerboard) brick quoins and window arches, all derive from the Romanesque, while the deep cornice and rich terra cotta fascia and bosses below it express the advent of the new classicism.

The building houses the fire department's Squad 18, and the garage bay door features a mural painted in 1976 for the American bicentennial. The vibrant, detailed painting depicts responding firemen.

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