{"id":326194,"date":"2026-08-20T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326194\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:30:15","slug":"new-york-city-fire-museum-reopens-to-the-public-in-manhattan-after-2-years-of-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326194\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Fire Museum reopens to the public in Manhattan after 2 years of repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-20-070013-e1787234456169-300x168.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1306080\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New York City Fire Museum reopened to the public Thursday after two years of repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The museum, located in a renovated 1904 firehouse at 278 Spring St., has been closed since May 2024 because of concerns about the building\u2019s structural integrity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t believe we\u2019re back, it\u2019s been a long road since last October,\u201d said Dominick DeRubbio, Executive Director of the New York City Fire Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reopening happened ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the deadliest day in FDNY history. Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeRubbio recounted how his uncle lost his life on Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe members who have died, and who have died from illnesses, carry me throughout my day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The museum houses historic FDNY firefighting artifacts and memorabilia, including items dating to the era of horse-drawn apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>WABC-TV ABC 7 New York City<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4d3597517da72223ef75ded0785ae81b.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"BACK ON THE LINE: NYC Fire Museum reopens ahead of 9\/11 milestone anniversary\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Fire Museum reopened to the public Thursday after two years of repairs. The museum,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,531,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-326194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-national","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}