Clean up in Coney Island! A Mermaid Avenue supermarket is in hot water with the feds this week for "essentially caging" its employees in the store overnight, which could lead to disaster in case of an emergency.
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Brooklyn Supermarket Staffers "Caged" Overnight, Says OSHA
As Triangle Fire Turns 100, List of Victims Is Complete
Next month marks the hundredth anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and for the first time since the tragedy that ultimately killed 146 garment workers, all of the victims' names will be read outside the Greenwich Village building where the fire took place on March 25. The names of the last six workers, whose identities remained elusive for a hundred years, were recovered thanks to the hard work of one Michael Hirsch, an amateur genealogist and historian (and co-producer of an upcoming HBO doc on the fire), who combed through archives of at least 32 daily papers from the time, along with a whole slew of public records, and talked with a number of relatives to compile the complete list.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Remembered
As noted in our newsletter, yesterday was the 98th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. In 1911 approximately 500 workers were sewing shirtwaists at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company's sweatshop near Washington Square in Manhattan when a fire broke out, ultimately killing 146 garment workers who either jumped to their deaths or died from the fire. It was the largest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York.
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