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December 4 (Friday) 7:30 pm. "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and its Meaning for Italian Americans"Professor Mary Anne Trasciatti, of Hofstra University, discusses the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a key event in U.S. history, which killed 146 people, mostly Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls and inspired a movement for wor...

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Save the Date -- March 25th, 2015!OFFICIAL COMMEMORATION of the 104th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.   Join us at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street, NYC, to remember those who died and honor the legacy of progressive reform that rose from the ashes of tragedy. (Many thanks to the family of great labor artist R...

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When the fire broke out on the eighth floor at the Triangle Waist Company Joseph Zito continued doing his job. The 27-year-old Italian immigrant with a solid jaw and dark features kept the elevator running. It was about 4:30 p.m. Nearly quitting time.   The fire quickly spread from the eighth floor, igniting the over 2,000 pounds of scrap fabri...

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by JTA   New York state is allocating $1.5 million in state funds for a memorial commemorating the victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The New York Times reported Monday that the memorial will consist of steel panels on the former Triangle building in New York City. The building in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Man...

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Triangle è il nome della fabbrica tessile che prese fuoco nel 1911 a New York causando la morte di 146 persone, la maggior parte emigrate italiane ed ebree. Sistemi di sicurezza inesistenti e porte chiuse a chiave, perché i padroni temevano che le operaie facessero pause troppo lunghe o commettessero furti, furono tra le condizioni che causarono un...

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by Kim Dramer   In his short novel, Washington Square, Henry James wrote about New York women of the Gilded Age; elegant ladies who strolled the sidewalks of the city's shopping district, Ladies' Mile. These New York women admired window displays of shirtwaists, an elegant button-down blouse with rows of tiny and elaborate tucks. The shirtwaist...

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By Riccardo Chioni L'incendio del Triangle Shirtwaist Factory di 103 anni fa in cui trovarono la morte 146 persone, quasi tutte sartine immigrate, fu una delle maggiori tragedie dell'epoca a New York e il 25 marzo viene commemorato quel giorno infame che diede vita al movimento sindacale dei lavoratori. L'edificio si trova nel Greenwich Village,...

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On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York’s Greenwich Village killed 146 workers. Most of the dead were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women, some as young as 15 years old. Survivors, their families, and those who witnessed the fire were forever changed by the tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the...

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March 26, 2015 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th FloorNew York, N.Y. 10036   On March 25, 1911, just before closing time, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village, killing 146 people, mostly young Italian and Jewish immigrant women. The tragedy devastated fami...

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Students gathered at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street to commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in an event sponsored by Workers United, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and the Service Employees International Union.   The fire that broke out in a garment factory in the Asch building in 1911, kill...

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