jelloCube Resurrected

Friday, March 25th, 2005

It would have been funnier if they waited until Sunday. Yesterday in the GammaBlaBlog.

Good Friday in Loisaida

Friday, March 25th, 2005

Good Friday procession on Rivington Street.

Triangle Fire 94th Anniversary Memorials

Friday, March 25th, 2005

The Brown Building, now an NYU science laboratory was in 1911 the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. NW corner Washington Place and Greene Street, near Washington Square Park in the West Village.

94th Anniversary memorial wreath. I suspect that ther are 146 flowers on the sidewalk. The ceremony was held on the 24th so as not to conflict with Good Friday.

“Bertha Manders, age 27. Emma Rootstein age 22. Jennie Levin 19. Rose Oringer Age 20. Died March 25, 1911, Triangle Factory Fire.”

Julia Oberstein, age 19. Lived 53 Ave A. Died March 25, 1911. Triangle Factory
Fire. Someone has made sidewalk chalk memorials where the victims of the Triangle fire lived. This one is in front of Urban Roots, a health food store. I also saw one in front of CBGB’s on the Bowery, but it was too faint to read.

Rachel Grossman, 17 yrs. Sixth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

Update 3/30/05 “Chalk” was a project organized by filmaker Ruth Sergel – streetpictures.com
I asked for her source on the names etc. She wrote: The addresses/ages etc. come from a wonderful book Triangle: The Fire that Changed America that just came out a couple of years ago by David Von Drehle. He Chalked this year & spoke at the commemoration. Also Leon Stein (The Triangle Fire) wrote the classic book on the fire in the 1950s. Old school radical he interviewed many of the survivors. It is super-readable & devastating.”

Update 4/3/05: Memorials in Chalk By MICHAEL MOLYNEUX in the New York Times

NYC Blogs

Friday, March 25th, 2005

Inspired by Photoblogger 3 the other night, I’m featuring my list of NYC bloggers, that usually resides a bit hidden in the right frame and a couple levels down, in the NYC Guide.

NYC Blogs

Bluejake
City Rag
Curbed
East Broadway
Eyechart
Free NYC
Globalgraphica
Gothamist
Gawker
Overheard
Joe’s NYC
LTV Squad
manyhigways
Metroplus
New Cities
NewYorkology
NY Moments
NYC Photobloggers
NY panoramas
Overshadowed
Pic Patrol
Satan’s Laundromat
Test of Will
Untitled Name
What I See
Youngna Park
Zach Klein