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Tag: Triangle Fire Coalition

A Successful Centennial

Friday, 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 commemorate this horrific event. The lineup kicked off with the Workers United Centennial Commemoration, held on  Washington Place and Greene Street outside of the building […]

A Fortuitous Exchange

When the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition asked the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation for help locating original building files for the Brown Building at 23-29 Washington Place, the 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 […]