Stamford DPW New Mack Granites

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Looks like Stamford has taken delivery of quite a few new Mack Granites:

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A related question- is the yard on Magee Ave. the only DPW yard in the City? I would think they would have something on the northern end as well?

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There are two Operations (our fancy new name for DPW) yards. The City Garage is on Magee Av, and the Town Yard is on Haig Av, in Belltown. This goes back to pree 1948 when there was the City of Stamford and the Town of Stamford.

An interesting bit of local history is located very close to the Town Yard, at the entrance is a small brick 2 story tower that used to have a bay door in the front. That was at one time the Town Police Office. The Town Police moved accross the Street to a bigger building that still stands and is owned by the PD but unused right now. After the merger it became Precinct 2, but was later closed and housed the Auxiliary Police & their Rescue Unit until 1978. Since then it has had a variety of uses. There is even an old Paddy Wagon parked there, that was repainted Red and served the Auxiliary Fire Department before being decommissioned in 1978 or before. Both the Auxiliary PD & FD were disbanded in 1978, along with CD.

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I believe there is also a small work yard north of the Merritt Parkway on Scofieldtown Road with a typical dome-type salt/sand shed. Not sure if any other equipment is permanently housed there.

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thats a nice looking truck. x635 roughly how mony of those did you see in the yard?