As in past years, volunteers have participated in the chalking project (organized by Street Pictures), writing the names and ages of the victims — mostly young women — in front of the buildings where they lived on the Lower East Side.
The reader photos are from St. Mark's Place (above) and 11th Street...
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest industrial disaster in U.S. history ... causing the death of 146 garment workers who either died from the fire or by jumping from the factory windows.
The Triangle Waist Company was located on the northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, just east of Washington Square Park. The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition website has more details on the tragedy and its legacy.
One of the victims lived at my address, before my building was built in 1932. I think about her and her coworkers often.
ReplyDeleteThank you to all involved in this project.
ReplyDeleteI try to observe this anniversary every year. This is the world they're trying to take us back to.
ReplyDeleteNoticed a while back, that they've created a edu-museumorial kind of thing to the corner of the building where the plaques have been. I kinda miss the solemness of old understated plaques on the building, but oh well.
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