Organization of the New York City Fire Department The Queens Communications Office was formerly located at 83-98 Woodhaven Blvd., Queens. There are currently 5 Divisions within the FDNY's EMS Command, which in turn command a total of 37 EMS Stations located throughout the five boroughs of the city. Former NYC EMS Stations in Parenthesis EMS Division 1 serves Manhattan. EMS Division 2 serves the Bronx. EMS Division 3 serves Northern and Central Brooklyn. EMS Division 4 serves Queens. EMS Division 5 serves Southern Brooklyn and Staten Island. There are nine volunteer fire departments in New York City that respond to calls in their neighborhood in addition to a
Manhattan of Greater New York", Manhattan and the Bronx, though still one county, were established as two separate boroughs. On January 1, 1914, the New York State Legislature created Bronx County, and New York County was reduced to its present boundaries. The construction of the New York City Subway, which opened in 1904, helped bind the new city together, as did additional bridges to Brooklyn. In the 1920s Manhattan experienced large arrivals of African-Americans as part of the Great Migration from the southern United States, and the Harlem Renaissance, part of a larger boom time in the Prohibition era that included