For years, when I brought tour groups to the Brown Building (formerly the Asch Building) at Greene St. and Washington Place ...
Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of our columnist’s grandfather – and 145 others perished in the 1911 factory blaze ...
Inside a building in Greenwich Village, NYU Ph.D. and postdoctoral students follow a familiar routine. They take the elevator ...
On March 25, 1911, 146 workers perished when a fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. For 90 years, it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. Bettmann/CORBIS On March 25, ...
Part One. Introduction: The fire that changed America. The garment industry and its workers ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand" ; The Triangle tragedy : grief and outrage ; "The fire that ...