He's taken heat for smart decisions like closing unnecessary firehouses and demanding more productivity from city workers.

They charge that the city is using the high vacancy rate as a tactic to close firehouses.

The plan to close firehouses at night was considered and then dropped last fall.

After the Great Depression hit in 1929, Most departments had to close firehouses.

He did not back down from a decision to close unnecessary firehouses despite enormous popular outcry.

But it's clear that there are people in this administration that want to close firehouses as a sign to everybody else to get in line.

At the same time, a commission is studying the Bloomberg administration's plan to close firehouses.

He has made big decisions there, including one allowing the city to close firehouses in 2003, but what compares to a criminal trial?

That saved the city more than $200 million at a time when it was raising taxes, closing firehouses, and laying off workers to balance its budget.

He continues to try to close firehouses, but a year later, the issue is still being discussed by a commission he formed.