NEW YORK (WCSC) — A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City became one of America’s worst industrial disasters, killing 146 people in less than half an hour. Flames raced through the ...

For years, when I brought tour groups to the Brown Building (formerly the Asch Building) at Greene St. and Washington Place in Greenwich Village, I had only photographs and a story to guide me. Three ...

Next week marks the 114th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, a tragedy that claimed the lives of 146 garment workers, primarily women and girls as young as 14 years ...

When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, March 25, 1911, they could not know that their lives would soon be extinguished ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On March 25, 115 years ago, my Great Aunt Fannie died in the workplace-altering Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Fannie Lansner — the 21-year-old sister of my ...

On a cold windy Saturday in March of 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. In less than a half an hour, it became one of the deadliest industrial disasters in ...

She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life to promoting worker safety. By Douglas Martin This obituary was originally ...

FILE – This 1911 file photo shows the burned out remains of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. One hundred years ago, horrified onlookers watched as workers ...