Union workers protest factory conditions. Photo via the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. Tomorrow marks the 103rd anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the 1911 disaster that killed 146…
Read More…Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village. Image via the Kheel Center. On March 25th, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, located at the corner of Washington Place and…
Read MoreThe 101st Commemoration of the Triangle Fire takes place today at Washington Place & Greene Street This Sunday, March 25, marks the 101st Anniversary of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory…
Read MoreAnna Gullo, a survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, believed, “In America, they don’t let you burn.” But the tragic events of March 25, 1911 proved her wrong. So…
Read MoreFiremen extinguish the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village. Image via the Kheel Center. On March 25, 1911, at approximately 4:40 PM, a fire broke out at…
Read More…heirs sold the triangle for $1,000 to Village Cigar, the store in front of which the triangle stands. Subsequently, Yeshiva University obtained the Village Cigar building and surrounding property, including…
Read More…The Hess Triangle is a triangular mosaic located in front of Village Cigars (which closed in February of 2024). The mosaic marks the ‘lot’ of land at 110 7th Avenue,…
Read More…NEVER BEEN DEDICATED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES,” the Hess Triangle in the sidewalk in front of 110 Christopher Street at Sheridan Square is a beloved little quirk of real estate in…
Read More…to present a revised plan for the Jane Street Triangle redesign. DOT hopes to permanently pedestrianize this small piece of West 4th Street which has been closed to traffic for…
Read More…Shirtwaist Factory Fire site, now the Brown Building (former Asch Building), 23-29 Washington Place On March 25, 1911, the deadliest industrial disaster in U.S. history occurred at the Triangle Shirtwaist…
Read More…according to her values, though it remains undetermined whether Lee ever became a U.S. citizen and voted here. Listen here! Episode 4: “Embers and Activism” and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory…
Read More…others. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire via Wiki Commons (L); View of the Brown Building today via Wiki Commons (R) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Building (now the NYU Brown Building, 23-29 Washington Place) On…
Read More…GVSHP has written about Clara Lemlich’s involvement in suffrage movements, as a way that NYC remembers the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire with the Clara Lemlich Award, and her role in NYC…
Read More…details, here. Outrage from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire helped spur new safety and labor regulations for workers. Image via the Kheel Center. Two street fairs will take place in…
Read MoreFriday, March 25, 2011, marked the 100 year anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, among countless other groups, had arranged events all weekend to…
Read More…Stokes as the criminal. Police first detained him at the Mercer Street Police Station, where three decades later the first victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire were taken. Stokes…
Read More…Her profession is listed in the census as “operator.” She died at the age of 16, on March 25, 1911. She was one of 146 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist…
Read More…contracts at almost every shirtwaist manufacturer in New York City by 1910. The one exception was the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, which continued its oppressive anti-labor practices, and where a fatal…
Read More…history, the building now houses the IATI Theater, a performing arts venue featuring Latino theater, music, dance, and workshops. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire site On March 25, 1911, the deadliest…
Read More…items or connecting to services and providing and place for the displaced to live temporarily. Today is also the 105th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire just a few blocks away…
Read More…Bronx was burning and Lower East Side was also suffering from fires and abandoned buildings. Before that, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire became one of the worst workplace tragedies to…
Read More…site of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911, we knew exactly where to look. The New York City Department of Records (aka Municipal Archives) is the repository for…
Read More…affection of the 300-square-inch tile-covered triangle located in front of Village Cigars at 110 Seventh Avenue South and Christopher Street in Sheridan Square. The nearly 100-year-old Hess Triangle could be…
Read More…Vincent’s Triangle Park It’s a dog’s life at the park! The St. Vincent’s Triangle Park: St. Vincent’s Triangle Park has been transformed from a pretty bleak and forbidding corner of…
Read More…influential figure in the activism following the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, which killed 146 garment workers (mostly young immigrant women) on March 25, 1911. The fire, and…
Read More…leader who co-founded the ACLU and helped lead response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. (l. to r., top to bottom) Simkhovitch, Smith, Sotomayor, Stokes, Streisand, Tarbell, Wadleigh. To vote…
Read More…and women’s suffrage leader who co-founded the ACLU and helped lead response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. (l. to r., top to bottom) Simkhovitch, Smith, Sotomayor, Stokes, Streisand, Tarbell,…
Read More…groups, worked with local charities, and was active in social services, such as translating documents, finding jobs, and aiding in the immigration process. Following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in…
Read More…whole, know- it’s a subway stop, there are a couple large apartment buildings with that address, it is the small triangle at the intersection of Washington Place, West 4th Street,…
Read More…victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were left without promised help by some of the “charities” established to help the victims, many of whom were immigrants who lived in the…
Read More…the country’s history occurred when 146 workers died in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The disaster led to legislation requiring safety standards and helped spur the growth of…
Read More…other incredibly important sites in Greenwich Village connected to immigrant history, including the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire building, which still stands at 23-29 Washington Place; St. Anthony of Padua Church at…
Read More…which required more and more light and air and amenities in structures built for the least well-off New Yorkers, and regulations passed after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911,…
Read More…nearby Triangle Shirtwaist Factory demanding better working conditions, prior to the deadly 1911 fire, were also arrested and brought here, as was Mae West, held in the adjacent prison for…
Read More…and the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. This year, in addition to the shadowbox installations, we are featuring two multifaceted, interactive large-scale installations in partnership…
Read More…justice. Here you can hear her talking about Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and her work to create a play about the fire and its impact on workers’ rights. Watch the entire…
Read More…Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place. Running to the scene of the catastrophe, Perkins watched as many of the women who worked at the…
Read More…local community and New York City through many historic tragedies as well as day-to-day events, including responding to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911 and the World Trade Center…
Read More…victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. In 1912 it treated survivors of the Titanic who were taken there from the docks of the Hudson. And in 1981, St. Vincent’s…
Read More…loft buildings in the blocks east of Washington Square built decades earlier for different purposes, such as the former Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Building, now known as the NYU Brown Building….
Read More…John Sloan, Patti Smith, and the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Installations will be accompanied by digital content accessed through QR codes on each exhibit with narrations recorded…
Read More…was also Father Demo who presided over funeral masses in 1911 for several young women of the congregation who had been killed at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire nearby. Father…
Read More…in Greenwich Village connected to immigrant history, including the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire building, which still stands at 23-29 Washington Place; St. Anthony of Padua Church at 151 Thompson Street, the…
Read More…of Pompei’s beloved priest, who ministered to the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Hopefully Tifereth Israel will be joining these illustrious ranks soon. You can view the whole…
Read More…knew that that’s where the frank, progressive conversations were happening. Moved by the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in Greenwich Village, she threw herself into the social and…
Read MoreThe tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in Greenwich Village and its impact on women’s rights and the labor movement is well known. There is a plaque at the Brown…
Read More…the Greenwich Village Trust for Historic Preservation) organized and led an archaeological dig of Sheridan Square. Kellerman being interviewed at the dig site. This 4,200 square foot triangle hadn’t been…
Read More…a residence, New York’s oldest site of continuous religious worship, Manhattan’s only true east-west street, the remains of the last Dutch Governor of New Netherland, and the only “triangle” of…
Read More…that the poem will still move people hundreds of years from now. St. Vincent’s Triangle Park St. Vincent’s Triangle Park was designed in the tradition of the family of Village…
Read More…Winner: Restoration of 30 7th Avenue – Lenox Health Greenwich Village/AIDS Memorial/St. Vincents Triangle Park- The restoration of the O’Toole Building, the new AIDS Memorial and St. Vincent’s Triangle Park have…
Read MoreHave you walked by the narrow triangle park where East 2nd Street, East Houston Street, and Avenue C all meet? This small, fenced-in sliver of green may seem unremarkable, but…
Read More…of Astor Place, at the corner of Stuyvesant Street and East 10th Street. The “Renwick Triangle” located at this intersection consists of seven Anglo-Italianate style houses constructed in 1862, believed…
Read More…East 10th Street (Nos 114-128), with a dramatic, acutely cornered building at the tip of the triangle. Renwick Triangle James Renwick, Jr. died in 1895 at his home at 28…
Read More…here. But before this triangle became a rather utilitarian delivery bay/open space, did you know that it housed a great movie palace? The theater on the triangle site was constructed…
Read More…a chance to reflect on the sacrifices and stories of two individual Villagers. Abingdon Square Doughboy McCarthy Square, a triangle of land where 7th Avenue South, Charles Street and Waverly…
Read More…Street retain their historic connection to these 17th century streets. Read more HERE. The City’s proposed redesign of the Jane Street Triangle The Jane Street Triangle redesign, presented by the…
Read More…oldest house still in use as a residence, New York City’s oldest site of continuous worship, and the only triangle of houses attributed to famed 19th century architect James Renwick….
Read More…a flat roof with a broken triangle pediment. It has three bays; the windows on the third and fourth floors are six over six, double hung, with a variety of…
Read More…later it was (see images from the archeological dig GVSHP supervised when the reconstruction was done), and remains a green jewel in the neighborhood today. Sheridan Square Triangle Garden. “Minimum…
Read More…hospital’s historic buildings). A New York City AIDS Memorial (also the winner of Village Preservation’s Regina Kellerman Award) now stands at the northwest corner of the former St. Vincent’s Triangle, which…
Read More…to People in Trouble. Like Schulman’s novel, RENT centers around a love triangle involving a female performance artist who cheats on her heterosexual male partner with a lesbian (in People…
Read More…you have a rectangle; slice the rectangle in half; and slice each half into triangles. Make a notch bisecting the base of each triangle, roll the base toward the tip,…
Read More…reported that over 200 Gold Star Mothers (those who lost their sons in World War I battle) were in attendance. McCarthy Square McCarthy Square, a triangle of land where 7th…
Read More…South, which local preservationists deemed incompatible with the neighborhood’s architectural landscape. Ruth Wittenberg Triangle, 2017. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. Both Ruth and Philip Wittenberg also worked to save the Jefferson…
Read More…of Seventh Avenue South at the time. Another great detail is the set’s adjacent street light, reminiscent of the historic Bishop’s Crook lamppost design. Hess Triangle No vignette of the…
Read More…series of houses known as Renwick Triangle, designed by James Renwick, Jr. Stuyvesant Fish House 21 Stuyvesant Street Renwick Triangle, former site of Elizabeth Fish’s Garden. Peter Gerard was…
Read More…Triangle at St. Vincent’s Park. Photograph by Julieta Cervantes Rattlestick has done a remarkable job of including many community partners in the making of this piece of art. As it…
Read More…of her many plays produced by Theater for the New City, tells the tale of what might have been the lives of the four unknown victims of the Triangle Factory…
Read More…Vincent’s Triangle), owned at the time by the librarian of the French community. The NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle, the former site of 212 West 12th Street….
Read More…triangle, just around the block from GVSHP’s office (learn more about the history of Renwick Triangle and the surrounding St. Mark’s Historic District here). In 1970 she moved to the…
Read More…they are today, but sometimes barren or forbidding places. Now Christopher Park — a .19-acre triangle formed by Christopher, Grove and West Fourth Streets — will be next to get…
Read More…site of what is now the Sheridan Square Viewing Garden with the cooperation of the Sheridan Square Triangle Association and the NYC Parks Department. The site, which was then just…
Read More…208 Sullivan Street used to be a place where it was clearly marked that “Members Only” were welcome. In the 1980s and 90s, the address was home to the Triangle…
Read More…buried beneath the church. The district also includes much of Stuyvesant Street, which has its own unique history. “Renwick Triangle” houses along East 10th Street and Stuyvesant Street in the…
Read More…Community Board #2 will also be voting on recommendations for the proposed design of the open space which Rudin must provide at the triangle at 7th Avenue, Greenwich Avenue, and…
Read More…there until 1968, when she moved to 120 East 10th Street on Renwick triangle, just around the block from GVSHP’s office (learn more about the history of Renwick Triangle and…
Read More…the history of Clara Lemlich and the 1909 shirtwaist strike, which led to the founding of Women’s History Month; the residences of Lorraine Hansberry, Emma Lazarus, Inez Milholland, and more;…
Read More…Lemlich led the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 and lived at 278 East 3rd Street by 1910. After being blacklisted for her labor union work, Lemlich devoted herself to…
Read More…Women’s Trade Union League, which sought to unionize working women and advocate for protective legislation. She organized the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and the Shirtwaist Strike, and fought for…
Read More…Borky, Yetta Raff, and Mary Effers link arms as they march to City Hall on December 3, 1909, during the New York shirtwaist strike to demand an end to abuse by…
Read More…from three to four stories in 1863-64, and by the end of the century the building’s upper floors had been converted to manufacturing use, serving as a shirtwaist and skirt…
Read More…planned by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, which had staged a similar but slightly smaller walk out and strike of Shirtwaist makers the year before. In 1910 the strikers…
Read More…activism while developing her career, participating in the shirtwaist and laundry worker strikes in New York City, for which she was arrested. Milholland was entrenched in the Village’s bohemian community…
Read More…correspondent. Milholland continued her activism while developing her career, participating in the shirtwaist and laundry worker strikes in New York City, for which she was arrested. Milholland was entrenched in…
Read More…as a National Historic Landmark under the name of the “Third Judicial District Courthouse”. Abe Lebewohl Triangle This small patch of well-tended greenery cascading up a beautifully preserved four-and-a-half-story Anglo-Italianate…
Read More…descendants of the first Portuguese Jews. One of these is the tiny triangle with twenty headstones familiar to Greenwich Villagers, on Eleventh Street, east of Sixth Avenue. The cemetery of…
Read More…And, bringing it all back to the Village, Holzer’s work now permanently lives here, in St. Vincent’s Triangle Park. Beneath the NYC AIDS Memorial canopy designed by Studio ai, Holzer…
Read More…Ali (l.) and Umais. The tiny triangle of a shop gets packed with locals and visitors from other boroughs and countries alike. People on their way home from school or…
Read More…do something positive and simple.” He’s also chosen to preserve much of the store interior that he inherited as the first tenant after Triangle: the historic storefront, tin ceiling, tiled…
Read More…One of these is the tiny triangle with twenty headstones familiar to Greenwich Villagers, on Eleventh Street, east of Sixth Avenue. The cemetery of those who died by plagues, particularly…
Read More…attending their 7th Annual Tulip Celebration on May 7th. (Just 2 days after our annual Spring House Tour Benefit.) The history of the “square” (which is really a triangle) is…
Read More…Penn Station. He was also raised at 118 East 10th Street in the East Village’s ‘Renwick Triangle’ in the St. Mark’s Historic District, so we consider him a bit of…
Read More…west of 6th Avenue it’s a pre-grid street which was joined to West 4th Street and renamed to make them one). This forms a triangle where a classic of row…
Read More…almost the entire triangle where Grove Street, Bleecker Street, and Seventh Avenue South meet. Max Siegal was hired to create two matching facades for this angled, L-shaped building. These matching…
Read More…an affair, one that apparently everyone in the tight-knit community, with the exception of Jack Reed, knew about. It became a classic love triangle and a theme first appearing in…
Read More…that it must be used for medical care for the “worthy poor.” The peculiar building sits in a triangle between Waverley Place, Christopher Street, and Grove Street. It is across…
Read More…his older self, the King of Pop. Kobra utilizes bright colors and bold lines to create a kaleidoscope theme throughout all of his murals. This technique of repeating triangles and…
Read More…in and form the rest of the St. Mark’s Historic District and ‘Renwick Triangle’ were finally developed. 1831 map showing the Stuyvesant’s landholdings, courtesy of NYPL Digital Collections. No. 44…
Read More…Vincent’s Triangle, which housed mechanical equipment for the hospital across the street. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street The LGBT Community Center has been a…
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