The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition presents: Celebrate the 99th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire MC Annie Lanzillotto and her band Fiasco will guide a sneak peek of…
Read MoreUnion 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 MoreA Greenwich Village Legacy: The Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 There were over 500 employees at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory – most were young women, most…
Read MoreAn Rong Xu for The New York Times Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire March 25, 1911 Historic Place One of the deadliest industrial disasters in American history took place at the…
Read MoreRemembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Lecture with Hasia Diner Part Two of Village Preservation’s celebration of Women’s History Month. In March 1911, a fire broke out at the…
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 MoreRemembering the Women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on Washington Place was a typical sweatshop, employing mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women. On March…
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Read MoreThe Triangle Factory Fire: A Walking Tour through Time Pay tribute to those lost in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire as we mark the Centennial of this infamous event which…
Read More…joined together to honor the memory of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 and to heighten awareness of the struggle for social justice that continues today….
Read Morewith Dr. Elissa Sampson, Cornell University This March 25th marks the 110th anniversary of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Fire when 146 garment workers, mainly young immigrant women, died in less than 18…
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…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 MoreJane Street Triangle Renovation In 2011, the City’s Department of Transportation unveiled a planned makeover of the Jane Street Triangle, at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Jane Street, and West…
Read MoreZoom Event. Free. One hundred years ago this summer, on July 27, 1922, a small mosaic triangle was unveiled at the corner of Seventh Ave South and Christopher Street. The…
Read MoreSt. Vincent’s Love Triangle: Sexual Health, Civil Rights, and Memory in the Village Tuesday, August 16 6:00pm ET start time. In-Person Outdoor Walking Tour. Free. The landscape of Greenwich Village conceals a battleground…
Read More…shape of the triangle. Status as of April 11th, 2011: At the Community 2 Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee meeting on April 11th, the Department of Transportation presented the proposal…
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…
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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…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 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…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 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…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…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…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…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…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…Jackson Pollock Leontyne Price Robert Rauschenberg Oliver Sacks Maurice Sendak John Sloan Patti Smith Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney The Northern Dispensary 70 Fifth Avenue Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire A Monument 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…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…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…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…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…The salon of Mable Dodge, a center of WW I-era activism • The tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and its role in the labor movement • The Suffrage…
Read More…a public arts memorial honoring the victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. 2) View the application: Available in PDF. 3) View CB2 Resolution: Available in PDF. 4) View…
Read More…Building, site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire), 23-29 Washington Place Brown Building NYC LPC Designation Report DeVinne Press Building, 393-399 Lafayette Street DeVinne Press Building NYC LPC Designation…
Read More…tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and its role in the labor movement • The Suffrage Movement Joyce Gold teaches Manhattan history at New York University. A contributor to…
Read More…Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and its role in the labor movement; and the suffrage movement. Joyce Gold teaches Manhattan history at New York University. She is the author of From…
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…art, and theatre iconoclasts; the salon of Mable Dodge, a center of WW I-era activism; the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and its role in the labor movement;…
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…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…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…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…activism; the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and its role in the labor movement; and the suffrage movement. Joyce Gold teaches Manhattan history at New York University. She…
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…thousands of other newcomers to this country; bold innovations in fire safety technology following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire; and much more. READ OUR LATEST SUBMISSION TO THE LANDMARKS PRESERVATION…
Read More…and Central Park. With the departure of the upper classes, the area became increasingly commercialized. Large factories such as the Asch Building (1900), later home to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory,…
Read More…from The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and The Merchants House to Eliza Jumel, Lily Dale, Theodora Burr, the ghost of Joan Rivers’ apartment, and even Judy Garland, authors show that America’s…
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…Highlights include: • The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the labor movement • Literary figures — Henry James, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Willa Cather, Eugene O’Neill • 19th century residential…
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…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 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…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…will also feature a rarely heard repertoire including balladry of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, a Yiddish-rooted Soviet animation score, and a gorgeous range of imaginative original compositions. This event…
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…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…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 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…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…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…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 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…Square Park and Conservancy Hudson Street Sat 10am -4pm AIDS Memorial/St. Vincent’s Triangle Park 76 Greenwich Ave at West 12th Sat & Sun 7am -11pm American Tap Dance Foundation 154…
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 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…& H Dairy; GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side); Dinosaur Hill; Patisserie Claude; Frank Collarius; Restoration of 30 7th Avenue – Lenox Health Greenwich Village/AIDS Memorial/St. Vincent’s Triangle Park—Regina Kellerman…
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For most of the twentieth century, Sheridan Square served as nothing more than a traffic-safety island. It wasn’t until 1982 that the area went from a paved triangle to a…
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