On March 25, 1990 — the 79th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire — 87 people were killed in an arson fire at the illegal Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx.
Day 30
Memorial to the 87
January 29th, 2012
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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9,326 miles walked
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Yep. I remember when this horror happened at the social club.
Obviously, there is never a good reason for such a tragedy, and this one was over an argument with a girlfriend.
Wow, My father was on a ten man task force with the Fire Marshalls called the social club task force created because of this tragedy and over crowding and not enough exits in illegal social clubs in NYC. I never saw the memorial.