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“Chalk” 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.”

I found this kind of sad. They are repairing the roof of the Anna Silver grade school, and put their porta-potties in front of the school’s 911 memorial. Those are silhouettes of the kids inside the numbers. The contractors could at least have put a tarp over it.

What it looked like in 2003

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