NY Daily News FDNY Photo Book

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The Daily News website now has a daily photo gallery, similar to that of The Journal News. The Daily News keeps the last three days' images in the daily gallery. They post many images not printed in the newspaper, including fires and rescues. Also at this site is the Daily News photo archives with images spanning the history of the paper.

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Their Photog's get alot of great shots.

They also just published an awesome book entitled " New York's Bravest: Eight Decades of Photographs from the Daily News"

Myself and TR54 have purchased it .

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearc...576871584&itm=1

From the Publisher  

 On September 11, the world was shown the face of bravery. As one woman so poignantly put it: As we ran out, they ran in. These heroes were doing the job they do each day, protecting more than 8 million residents in the area of 320 square miles that is New York City. That horrible day, we were made heartbreakingly aware of the risks these people take daily; risks their loved ones knew all too well.  

First-hand witnesses to the heroism of the FDNY, the photographers of The Daily News knew these risks too. They have been covering the life and death situations the human drama that fire creates since the founding of the The Daily News in 1919.  

These seasoned photographers of the Daily News have chased firetrucks in their radio cars since the earliest days of photojournalism, photographing children and animals being rescued from burning buildings, and capturing the disbelief on the faces of those gazing at the remnants of their lives, going up in smoke. These photographers know intimately the faces of those left behind in covering the all too many funerals, mourning with the families a loss felt not only across a city of millions, but acutely within a deeply bonded fraternity across the country.  

Culled from the archive of The Daily News, consisting of more than 6 million images, this book represents more than eighty years of the world renowned New York City Fire Department in action, fighting fires, rescuing lives, and bringing peace and order to chaos, fear, and destruction.  

In the Fire Department of New York, there are more than 11,400 Fire Officers and Firefighters. In addition, the FDNY includes 2,800 EMS and Paramedics personnel. This book is a tribute to their dedication, bravery, and humanity.  

 

 From The Critics  

 Library Journal

The world discovered New York's firefighters in the thick of their department's greatest single loss and paradoxically one of its greatest achievements-the evacuation of thousands from the burning Trade Center towers. But the courage and skill displayed last September were, argues Golway, the culmination of three centuries of firefighting culture developed doing hazardous work in an increasingly vertical city. Golway is city editor and columnist for the New York Observer and coauthor of The Irish in America, but more to the point for this moving history, he is the son and grandson of New York City firemen and no stranger to the "culture of firefighting." In So Others Might Live, the first full history of the FDNY in 60 years, Golway shows the department's emergence from amateur bucket brigades into the beginnings of a specialized force and up to the present, never letting a memorable figure or vivid moment escape his narrative. The book is simultaneously a social history of the changing city and a dramatic record of the disasters that have assaulted and periodically reshaped it: Manhattan's great fire of 1776 made thousands homeless and leveled a quarter of the city's structures, for instance, while city firefighters played a crucial role during America's worst riot-the draft riots of 1863-before establishing New York's first professional force two years later. Golway's narrative updates a classic history by Costello, Our Firemen: A History of the New York Fire Departments Volunteer and Paid, originally published in 1887 and now abridged and republished under a new name. Costello delivers all the sooty romantic lore in high style ("Onward, still onward, swept the fiery bosom of destruction") while detailing the evolution of a firefighting force that is the recognizable progenitor of the one that rushed up into the burning towers. Another worthy companion to Golway's book is New York's Bravest: Eight Decades of Photographs from the Daily News, which records 80 years of New York firefighting through 166 pages of dramatic picture stories-children plucked breathlessly from harm, a building transformed by hosing during a winter fire into a glittering ice palace, the seven-alarm blaze caused by a jet collision over Brooklyn in December 1960-that have been the life's blood of the photo tabloid since its creation in 1919. The book concludes with the department's worst fire of all. "It has been more than two centuries since Benjamin Franklin wrote of the love firefighters had for each other," Golway observes in So Others Might Live. "In the ruins of the Twin Towers, in the memorials for the fallen, in the embraces and salutes and unchanged rituals, the world saw the power of that love."-Nathan Ward, "Library Journal" Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.  

 

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The Daily News book contains some awesome photographs of FDNY from past to present. Worth the money next time your at Barnes and Nobles.

They really do get some of the best action photo's in the city. There photographers must also be buffs

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I understand this book is on $ale ,,,,Clearance Rack ,,,and Barnes and Noble in Greenburgh for less than $10.00!

My friend said"about 10 copies left"

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearc...576871584&itm=1

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Is this a good book? Good Photography?

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I have the book, it's excellent.

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Thank you!

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Page 14 ....

Photo of Port Chester N.Y. fireman after battling a blaze damaged four buildings and injured dozens. Hose streams created ice.

Helmet marker shows a # 2.

Feb 19 1934.

Awesome picture

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if you don;t own this book, you have to get it. it has pics from way back in the day. alot of action shots and just stuff that makes you go wow

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My next door neighbor's sister is the author...it's definitely a great book for those interested in vintage fire service pictures.