New York, NY – Brooklyn Firehouses Saved from City Chopping Block

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    Brooklyn, NY – The city’s annual budgetary dance is over — and the eight Brooklyn firehouses that Mayor Bloomberg threatened to close didn’t flame out after all.

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    Firehouses expected to be shuttered in Dyker Heights, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg and Coney Island — making up 40 percent of the proposed 20 citywide closures — were left unscathed and more than 4,000 city teachers kept their jobs when the music stopped on June 24 and Bloomberg and the Council finalized the city’s $66-billion budget.

    The annual budget battle is a kabuki dance that typically features a mayor intent on cutting vital services only to allow himself and Council leaders to claim credit when those services are “restored” in the final agreement.


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    ALLAN
    ALLAN
    12 years ago

    As each day passes I learn to dislike Mayor Bloomberg more and more. His annual budgetary dance has become disgusting. Playing on the emotions of NYC residents by threatening cuts in FDNY protection is unforgiveable. He is almost as bad as the person who sets a fire then rescues those caught in that fire and becomes a hero till the truth comes out.

    heyward
    heyward
    12 years ago

    I am glad that fire man are busy with there own problums. Instead of coming in to your buildings and harrass you.

    12 years ago

    It’s terrible that the closing of the W 8th Street Firehouse was ever even considered. Numereous 23 story high rises surround this firehouse, filled with elderly people who are mostly Jewish. We are a huge voting block and we will remember this insult on Election Day!