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March 25: Remembering The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Tragedy that galvanized national labor movement occurred 100 years ago today
March 25, 1911. On this date, 146 mostly women and girls died when a scrap of discarded fabric burst into flames, turning a factory floor in a nondescript Greenwich Village building into what it was all along — a firetrap for dozens of poor, immigrant workers forced to endure habitually unsafe conditions.
As an NYU undergraduate, hardly a day went by when I didn't pass the spot on the sidewalk where so many young women, many of whom were no older than myself, fell to their death.
And it never failed to give me pause. For me, the great-grandson of immigrants, some of whom came from the same blocks as the victims, it was a daily reminder of what these women had to endure to ensure that people like me could have a better life.
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Here are your 5 Things for today:
1. Courtesy of NY1 comes this report of a former Queens state senator marking the death of three family members in the Triangle fire.
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2. In case you missed it: A former ambulette driver caught by police after using his regular vehicle as a getaway car after the stick-up of an Oakland Gardens nail salon was sentenced earlier this week to .
3. Later today, look for our coverage of last night's Community District Education Council safety meeting at Little Neck's .
4. Heart-to-Heart, a group for couples affected by memory loss, at the Samuel Field Y.
5. Alternate side parking rules are in effect today.
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