Officials will unveil this fall the long-awaited Triangle Fire Memorial at the site of one of the deadliest blazes in New York City history, in Greenwich Village.
The infamous inferno broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist sweatshop on March 25, 1911. The blaze, caused by a cigarette that had been carelessly thrown into a fabric scrap bin, quickly swept through the factory, which occupied the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the Asch Building.
The high-profile blaze galvanized the labor movement and a series of reforms designed to prevent similar tragedy. Organizers of the coming memorial hope the new monument will help keep the legacies of those who perished alive. According to the coalition, the memorial has been made possible with a generous grant of $1.5 million from the State of New York, and by funding from foundations, labor unions, and thousands of other supporters.
“The Triangle fire resonates so significantly with my union, Workers United, because it was Local 25 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, the predecessor of the current Local 23-25, that was trying to organize the factory at the time of the fire and one reason that the factory bosses locked the doors was to keep the union organizers out,” said Edgar Romney, secretary-treasurer of Workers United and long-time organizer of the union’s annual Triangle Fire commemoration.
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