Central Fire Station loomed over an early Rochester

Central Fire Station loomed over an early Rochester

Less than a century ago, Rochester’s Central Fire Station stood like a giant roadblock in the middle of South Broadway at Sixth Street. It was not possible to travel around, through or beyond the fire hall. “We never thought that Broadway would go any further south,” Richard Ryan, assistant fire chief, told the Post-Bulletin in 1930. “There were only trees and pastures back of the station and no one ever thought that the land would be developed.…