FDNY - Engine 34 / Ladder 21

USA / New Jersey / West New York / West 38th Street, 440
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2-story fire station completed in 1936. Designed by , it is clad in dark-red brick with a red granite water table. The ground floor has two garage doors, both framed by banded limestone surrounds. The wider one on the left houses Hood & Ladder Company 21, and the one on the right houses Engine Company 34; both have bright-red doors. There are several bronze memorial plaques in between the bays.

The 2nd floor has a double-window flanked by single-windows over the wider bay, and a tripartite window configuration over the smaller bay, all with white stone sills and lintels, and projecting brick piers between the windows. There are panels of corbeled brick above the windows, and the piers are capped at the stone roof line by stone capitals extending above the roof line.

"38th Street Mutts"

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Coordinates:   40°45'23"N   73°59'47"W
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