Making Way for The Hills
Jan 8, 2014 11:23 pm
We said goodbye today to the firehouse on the south island as construction continues with The Hills project. Neither the chill nor the ice-carpeted site hindered the demolition, which began this morning. Two of the hills, Discovery Hill and Outlook Hill, will slope down and meet each other where the station used to stand. This is the first demolition since the implosion of building 877 and is another milestone towards completing the Park and Public Space Master Plan. [caption id=“attachment_7412” align=“alignnone” width=“300”]
The clearing of the firehouse will open up needed space for The Hills project.[/caption] The old coast guard firehouse was the base for FDNY operations on Governors Island since 2004, but not to worry, the FDNY has a new base of operations in the Island Warehouse District. 
- The excavators at work.