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Firefighters work at the scene of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire March 25, 1911, in the Asch Building on New York's Washington Place.
Podcaster Show PlayerNEW YORK — If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques ...
The victims and legacy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire are being remembered with a new memorial. A structure of steel was dedicated Wednesday at the Manhattan building where the ...
NEW YORK — If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques pointing out that it was ...
More than a century ago, a fire broke out on the upper floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a garment company in Greenwich Village, killing 146 workers, many of them immigrant women.
The victims and legacy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire are being remembered with a new memorial. A structure of steel was dedicated Wednesday at the Manhattan building where the ...