This past Friday, in the shade on the corners of Washington and Greene streets, a crowd gathered around a small stage with a "Workers United" banner hung behind it.
Commemorations are planned across New York this week for the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The tragedy 105 years ago took the lives of 146 workers, most of whom lived on the Lower East Side. Here's a...
You may have heard about the HBO documentary, "Triangle: Remembering the Fire," which debuted last week. This year marks the 100 year anniversary of the tragic event that killed 146 workers, many of them residents of the Lower East...
The Jewish Daily Forward is holding a fascinating poetry contest based on the historic Triangle Factory Fire, which happened 100 years ago this March. It was considered the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New...