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Triangle Fire Chalk

gamma — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:58:14 +0000

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â€œChalkâ€ a project organized by filmaker Ruth Sergel – streetpictures.com
In 2005 I asked 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.â€

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Heather Johnson Chalk Stencils

gamma — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:40:25 +0000

Chalk stencils from Heather Johnson underneath the approach to the Williamsburg Bridge. She transcribed snippets of conversation heard in the neighborhood. This was done for the Conflux Festival.

Buena aqui para “the little rocket.”
Conflux Video Here

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Triangle Fire 94th Anniversary Memorials

gamma — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:19:45 +0000

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

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