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Unique Reminder of Devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Taking Shape

By SARAH DORSEY
Posted 1/6/14

Passersby whose eyes are drawn to a century-old office building in Greenwich Village may not, at first, know what to make of what they see.

A mirrored ledge running along the building at hip level will display 146 names, mostly female, many of them Italian- or Jewish-surnamed, seemingly written in pieces of sky.

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