A Look Back - Remember These?

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This picture was taken not too long ago on a street corner in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.

[Barry]

Don't remember the last time I saw a fire box or mail box like that

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I know the mail boxes are gone, I'm not sure about the call boxes for the FDNY.....James might know the answer.

[Barry]

Mike I would think if those call boxes are still around there would be more false alarms than real fires.

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what about the police call boxes with the green light above it

[CQuinn]

What memories that mailbox brings back. The cast iron street light on the corner of Washington and 179th had the pea green mailbox attached. As a little kid I would climb up and sit on the mailbox and the street light had an orange light near the top which indicated there was a fire call box on that corner. Wow, I was just back there for a minute.

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The Fire boxes were changed back in the late 70's to the two-way systems... LIke Barry said, there were a LOT of false alarms... I mean, I never pulled one, but I thought about it many times -- just based on the ease of pulling it...

bx58nyc said:

I know the mail boxes are gone, I'm not sure about the call boxes for the FDNY.....James might know the answer.

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my dad would always go on shift with dimes in his pocket in case he had to call the station house and wasnt near a police box---as i recall they were locked and the cops had exclusive use of them

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I sure do remember them.

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I remember the boxes being an olive green.