The Triangle Fire Memorial has been years in the making. The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition held an international competition to design a memorial in 2013. Out of the nearly 180 submissions sent ...
(New York Jewish Week) – As Allison and Rebecca Kestenbaum stood in front of a building in Greenwich Village on Wednesday, they were thinking about another set of sisters: their relatives Celia and ...
On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top three floors of what is now known as the Brown Building, located at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street in the Lower East Side. At the time, ...
The oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, who was born in Italy and lived in the United States for six years at the time of her death, notes Cornell University. The two youngest victims, ...
After 100 years, the tragedy still inspires outrage and grief. Why does it have a hold on us? By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...
They started coming out the windows at a quarter to five on a bright, sunny spring afternoon. Large bundles of fabric, tossed from a ninth-story window in New York’s Greenwich Village. There was the ...
In 1909, New York City’s garment industry was beset by a series of strikes that started when the Triangle Waist Company locked out its employees for union organizing activities. Sympathy walk-outs hit ...
She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life to promoting worker safety. By Douglas Martin To Michael Hirsch, the ...
Americans tend to be fascinated by what’s new and to be indifferent to the past, except when they can use “tradition” to reinforce current prejudices and power arrangements. This has had an ...
This week marks 100 years since a fire at the Triangle Waist Company factory in New York City killed 146 people, most of them poor young women. The event is often cited as the catalyst for modern ...
In 1909, New York City’s garment industry was beset by a series of strikes that started when the Triangle Waist Company locked out its employees for union organizing activities. Sympathy walk-outs hit ...
For the unknowing passerby, the 10-story loft building at the corner of Washington and Greene streets is unlikely to stand out. But for others, it is a place of pilgrimage. Just over 100 years ago, on ...
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