Triangle fire at last has a monument

For years, when I brought tour groups to the Brown Building (formerly the Asch Building) at Greene St. and Washington Place ...

Unions have long lost their Triangle Fire momentum

Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of our columnist’s grandfather – and 145 others perished in the 1911 factory blaze ...
The Forward on MSNOpinion

We’re forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, Mar. 25, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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, ...
BroadwayWorld

Shaina Taub to Join Tenement Museum for THE TRIANGLE FIRE: RESPONSE, REFORM AND REVERBERATIONS

On Thursday March 25, WNYC is partnering with the Tenement Museum for “The Triangle Fire: Response, Reform and Reverberations,” in commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on the 114th ...
Yahoo

A memorial in Yiddish, Italian and English tells the stories of Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims − testament not only to tragedy but to immigrant women’s fight to remake ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Victims' names engraved in a metal overhang, part of the Triangle Shirtwaist Memorial, are reflected in mirroring panels along the ...
Time

What Bangladesh Can Learn from New York’s Triangle Factory Fire

A little more than a century ago, in the rapidly developing United States of America, nearly 1,000 workers died on the job every week, on average. Collapsed mines buried them alive. Bursting steam ...