NY Times: In Old New York Shouting Fire with a System of Bells

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/realestate/in-old-new-york-shouting-fire-with-a-system-of-bells.html

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The Department of Parks and Recreation has announced plans to disassemble the creaky old Mount Morris Fire Watchtower in Harlem, although it says it will store the pieces until there is money to fully restore it. Thus will disappear the last of the unusual network of fire bell towers in New York City, which began in 1812 on top of City Hall and ended around 1880, the bell system replaced by street boxes and telegraphs.
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