Brown Building at New York University

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New York City Landmark academic building building factory fire historic site industrial disaster

The Brown Building at New York University is a historic Greenwich Village structure best known as the site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a pivotal event in U.S. labor and fire safety reform.

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Label	Occurrences
Brown Building at New York University canonical	1
NYU campus	1

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	New York City Landmark ⓘ academic building ⓘ building ⓘ factory fire ⓘ historic site ⓘ industrial disaster ⓘ
architecturalStyle	early 20th-century commercial style ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
date	1911-03-25 ⓘ
formerlyKnownAs	Asch Building NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCoordinateSystem	geographic coordinates ⓘ
hasFloorCount	10 ⓘ
hasMemorial	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire memorial plaques ⓘ
hasNameOrigin	named after philanthropist Frederick Brown ⓘ
hasSignificance	symbol of labor rights movement in the United States ⓘ symbol of workplace safety reform ⓘ
hasUse	classrooms ⓘ educational purposes ⓘ laboratories ⓘ
heritageDesignation	National Historic Landmark ⓘ
impact	U.S. labor reform ⓘ fire safety reform in the United States ⓘ
knownFor	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn	Greenwich Village NERFINISHED ⓘ Manhattan ⓘ New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
locatedNear	Washington Square Park NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedOn	Washington Place NERFINISHED ⓘ
location	Asch Building NERFINISHED ⓘ Brown Building at New York University NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenwich Village NERFINISHED ⓘ
ownedBy	New York University NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	New York University campus NERFINISHED ⓘ
significantEvent	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire NERFINISHED ⓘ
subjectOf	historical tours of Greenwich Village ⓘ studies on fire safety regulation ⓘ studies on labor history ⓘ

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire → memorialLocation → Brown Building at New York University ⓘ

Washington Square → adjacentTo → Brown Building at New York University ⓘ

this entity surface form: NYU campus