The City of New York had some I recall from text and illustration
probably in the author of the official "History of NYC" guide to the
1939 Worlds Fair, and of "The Iconography of Manhattan", I.N. Phelps
Stokes (of which there is a "short version" (2 vols. ?) and a "long
version" in (5? volumes). The "fire tower" was replaced by the "call
box" perhaps after the early pre-Morse "telegraph" experiments in City
Hall Park reported in the day-to-day yearly history (time line) in the
"long" version.
The first reported outfitted fire brigade in NYC were apparently
organized by Thomas Hall of the Englishman Isaac Allerton's warehouse
next to the first ferry to Brooklyn in the New Amsterdam colony, today
"under" the South Street Historic District.
George Myers