Former C’Gardens fi rehouse
to become music school
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
They’re bringing it Bach to
life!
The city unveiled its $6.5
million restoration plan to
transform the long-shuttered
Engine 204 fi rehouse in Carroll
Gardens into a music
school Wednesday, where the
former blaze-busting hub will
serve as the new outpost for
the musical nonprofi t the Noel
Pointer Foundation, according
to the organization’s head.
“I’m looking forward to
great things happening in this
space,” said Chinita Pointer.
“We’re going to fi ll it with music.”
City bureaucrats with the
Department of Cultural Affairs
will oversee the redevelopment
of the 162-year-old
building on DeGraw Street
between Court and Smith
streets, and has not yet set a
start date for the restoration,
but offi cials anticipate the facility
to open by 2024.
The city capital funding for
the project includes $3 million
from Mayor Bill de Blasio, $2.5
million from City Council,
and $1 million from Borough
President Eric Adams.
The Bedford-Stuyvesant
music organization — along
with Williamsburg design
fi rm Vamos Architects — plan
to revamp the two-story 4,300-
square-foot space to accommodate
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a recording studio, and
offi ces.
The group currently
teaches kids to play classical
and modern music — instructing
them in string instruments,
piano, deejay, composition,
music theory, and
singing — out of its headquarters
at the Herkimer Street
community development organization
Restoration, where it
will live until the Carroll Gardens
center opens. Educators
also teach kids remotely at 36
public schools across the city.
The city closed the old
Brooklyn fi rehouse in 2003
and considered selling it or
turning it onto a schoolhouse
— before cutting a deal to redevelop
it into a community
center, practice rooms, and
artist spaces with the Brooklyn
Philharmonic in 2008, despite
some neighbors at the
time hoping it would become
an active fi rehouse again.
But that scheme collapsed
when the symphony group
went bust in 2013 and the dilapidated
The Noel Pointer Foundation plans to teach classical music classes in the
former fi rehouse. Illustrations courtesy of Vamos Architects
property remained
vacant while city art honchos
searched for a new organization
to fi ll the space — and
eventually stuck a deal with
the Bedford-Stuyvesant group
in 2018, according to Cultural
Affairs spokesman Ryan
Max.
The building was erected
in 1857 and still bears the initials
of the former Brooklyn
Fire Department from before
the Great Mistake of 1898
— when the vibrant city of
Brooklyn became just one of
fi ve New York City boroughs,
according to a 1892 tome dedicated
to Brooklyn’s Fire Department
History.
The city has secured $6.5 million
to renovate the shuttered DeGraw
Street fi rehouse and turn it into a
music school.
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