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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. [1]
Zito had been working as an elevator operator at Triangle Waist Company in Manhattan for six months when the fire broke out at the factory. On March 25, 1911, at approximately 4:40 pm on Saturday as the workday was ending, a fire flared up in a scrap bin under one of the cutters' tables at the northeast corner of the 8th floor. [4]
The Brown Building is a ten-story building that is part of the campus of New York University (NYU), which owns it. [4] It is located at 23–29 Washington Place, between Greene Street and Washington Square East in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, and is best known as the location of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911, which killed 146 people.
One hundred years ago this month, New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burst into flames, killing 146 garment workers and fundamentally changing the way America viewed its laborers. In the ...
For many people, Labor Day marks the end of summer, the last day on which you can tastefully wear white shoes, or the beginning of football season. The lack of a clear connection to labor itself ...
The film chronicles the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911, in which 146 garment workers died [3] and which spurred the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. [4] The film was nominated for three Emmy awards, and won for Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling. [5]
In 1666, most of London turned to ashes, including over 13,000 homes. In an 1845 theater fire in China, 1,670 died. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist. In 50 BC the Library of Alexandria burned. In ...
The Triangle Fire Memorial is a memorial at the Brown Building in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [1] It commemorates the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 workers, primarily Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls, and is considered a catalyst in the American labor rights movement.