Is the Triangle Shirtwaist factory building still there

Most of them were young immigrant women and girls with roots in southern and eastern europe.Most of the several hundred triangle shirtwaist employees were teenage girls.One hundred years ago on march 25, fire spread through the cramped triangle waist company garment factory on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of the asch building in lower manhattan.It was a warm spring saturday in new york city, march 25, 1911.The american disaster is now hailed as a turning point that led to safer workplaces and.

The building, especially the upper levels, was not designed to be a factory.Workers at the factory were paid a higher wage as a result of the strike.It was originally built to be a warehouse.On the afternoon of march 25, 1911, a fire started on the asch building's eighth floor.And so in november of 1909 the triangle shirtwaist company employees go on strike, asking for higher wages and fewer hours.

By the time the seamstresses there realized the building was on fire, one stairwell was already filling with smoke and flames.