
The worst fires in New York City history have something in common: Immigrant victims
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The worst fires in New York City history -- the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company to the 1990 Happy Land Social Club to last Sunday's Bronx apartment building -- have claimed the lives of immigrants. The tragedies parallel immigrant life in the city.
"They were our aunts and uncles and others who were coming to our food pantry since the pandemic," said Ajifanta Marenah, secretary of the Gambian Youth Organization, just blocks from the site of last Sunday's fire. "This is a community of people who have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet."
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