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A commemoration marking the 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire will take place today at the site of the tragedy.
The annual ceremony honors the 146 garment workers — mostly young immigrant women who lived on the Lower East Side — who died in the 1911 fire, an event that led to major reforms in labor and fire safety laws.
During the program, attendees — including family members, labor leaders and elected officials — will read the names of the victims as a bell tolls. Flowers will be placed at the site, and a fire truck ladder will be raised to the sixth floor, the highest point firefighters could reach at the time. The fire engulfed the 8th, 9th and 10th floors.
The gathering begins at 11:30 a.m. with music, followed by the program at noon, on the northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, just east of Washington Square Park.
As in the past 20-plus years, volunteers today will participate in a chalking project (organized by Street Pictures), writing the names and ages of the victims where they lived.
For more details on the fire and its lasting impact, visit the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition website.
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