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Where They Lived: Remembering the victims of The Triangle Factory Fire

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date March 25, 2024
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Today marks the 113th anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire. For information on commemorations and other activities, visit Remember the Triangle Coalition. For stories of the struggles faced by employees of the shirtwaist industry, check out our 2020 show on the Shirtwaist Strike of 1909: And for more information on the Triangle Factory Fire itself,… Read More

Tags fire, Lower East Side, Triangle Factory Fire, Washington Square

Podcasts

At The Ready: The History of the New York City Fire Department

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date February 7, 2014
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The distinguished members of New York’s various volunteer fire brigades, posing for the photographer Matthew Brady in 1858PODCAST The New York City Fire Department (or FDNY) protects the five boroughs from a host of disasters and mishaps — five-alarm blazes, a kitchen fire run amok, rescue operations and even those dastardly midtown elevators, always… Read More

Tags Boss Tweed, Bronx, fires, Gangs of New York, Great Fire of 1835, New York Fire Department, Peter Stuyvesant, Sept. 11, Triangle Factory Fire

With the state capitol on fire, a wealth of history lost

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date March 31, 2011
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This is not New York City related, but it pertains to the state capital. New Yorkers woke up this morning 100 years ago to see the haunting portrait above in the morning papers. The state capitol building in Albany , completed just 12 years before, caught fire on the evening of March 29, 1911, destroying… Read More

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American History

Where they lived: Victims of the Triangle Factory Fire, the homes they left behind, a hundred years later

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date March 24, 2011
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Lonely tenement on Avenue C and 13th Street, near many homes of the Triangle Fire victims. photo by Percy Loomis Sperr [NYPL] From cable television to museums and campuses all over the city, you’ve been able to find a host of remembrances of the tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory one hundred years ago.… Read More

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Some basic information

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date February 28, 2011
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Mourners filled the streets of New York on April 5th, 1911 , in honor of the victims of the Triangle Factory Fire. This March, modern New Yorkers will get their turn to commemorate the tragedy. Next month is the 100th anniversary of one of the most horrific tragedies in New York City history — the… Read More

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Podcasts

PODCAST: The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date April 12, 2008
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Shirtwaist factory workers on strike! Come listen to the strange and shocking facts of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, of a workplace tragedy that changed how New Yorkers live and work in a world of tall, flammable buildings. Listen to it for free on iTunes or other podcasting services. Or you can download or listen… Read More

Tags Cooper Union, Podcasts, Triangle Factory Fire