
Brown Building
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Nov 6, 2026
Won't Someone Think of The Children!? | Ep 82
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61:12AlexHOST
well, that's before Heartbreak was invented.
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61:15AlexHOST
Just went back to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
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61:17AlexHOST
Exactly.
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61:21AlexHOST
Well, thank you so much for having that conversation with me.
Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity with David Conrad-Pérez (NYU Press, 2026)
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42:28David Conrad-PérezGUEST
There's still classes there.
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42:30David Conrad-PérezGUEST
But even the building itself is called the Brown Building, which is named after a man named Frederick Brown, who was a wealthy millionaire real estate developer who donated the building to NYU and then had the building named after him.
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42:42David Conrad-PérezGUEST
So very much the name of the building itself is a symbol of charity.
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42:48David Conrad-PérezGUEST
And I think that really states just how much we still have to learn from this event.
Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity with David Conrad-Pérez (NYU Press, 2026)
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43:49David Conrad-PérezGUEST
There's still classes there.
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43:51David Conrad-PérezGUEST
But even the building itself is called the Brown Building, which is named after a man named Frederick Brown, who was a wealthy millionaire real estate developer who donated the building to NYU and then had the building named after him.
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44:04David Conrad-PérezGUEST
So very much the name of the building itself is a symbol of charity.
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44:09David Conrad-PérezGUEST
And I think that really states just how much we still have to learn from this event.
Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity with David Conrad-Pérez (NYU Press, 2026)
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50:53David Conrad-PérezGUEST
There's still classes there.
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50:55David Conrad-PérezGUEST
But even the building itself is called the Brown Building, which is named after a man named Frederick Brown, who was a wealthy millionaire real estate developer who donated the building to NYU and then had the building named after him.
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51:08David Conrad-PérezGUEST
So very much the name of the building itself is a symbol of charity.
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51:13David Conrad-PérezGUEST
And I think that really states just how much we still have to learn from this event.
Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity with David Conrad-Pérez (NYU Press, 2026)
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50:00David Conrad-PérezGUEST
There's still classes there.
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50:01David Conrad-PérezGUEST
But even the building itself is called the Brown Building, which is named after a man named Frederick Brown, who was a wealthy millionaire real estate developer who donated the building to NYU and then had the building named after him.
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50:14David Conrad-PérezGUEST
So very much the name of the building itself is a symbol of charity.
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50:21David Conrad-PérezGUEST
I think that really states just how much we still have to learn from this event.
Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity with David Conrad-Pérez (NYU Press, 2026)
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43:49David Conrad-PérezGUEST
There's still classes there.
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43:51David Conrad-PérezGUEST
But even the building itself is called the Brown Building, which is named after a man named Frederick Brown, who was a wealthy millionaire real estate developer who donated the building to NYU and then had the building named after him.
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44:04David Conrad-PérezGUEST
So very much the name of the building itself is a symbol of charity.
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44:09David Conrad-PérezGUEST
And I think that really states just how much we still have to learn from this event.
Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity with David Conrad-Pérez (NYU Press, 2026)
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45:49David Conrad-PérezGUEST
There's still classes there.
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45:51David Conrad-PérezGUEST
But even the building itself is called the Brown Building, which is named after a man named Frederick Brown, who was a wealthy millionaire real estate developer who donated the building to NYU and then had the building named after him.
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46:04David Conrad-PérezGUEST
So very much the name of the building itself is a symbol of charity.
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46:09David Conrad-PérezGUEST
And I think that really states just how much we still have to learn from this event.
Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity with David Conrad-Pérez (NYU Press, 2026)
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48:45David Conrad-PérezGUEST
There's still classes there.
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48:47David Conrad-PérezGUEST
But even the building itself is called the Brown Building, which is named after a man named Frederick Brown, who was a wealthy millionaire real estate developer who donated the building to NYU and then had the building named after him.
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48:59David Conrad-PérezGUEST
So very much the name of the building itself is a symbol of charity.
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49:05David Conrad-PérezGUEST
And I think that really states just how much we still have to learn from this event.
Up Close: Reincarnation
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12:04Michael AlperGUEST
Shirtwaist Factory.
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12:04Amy FederHOST
So there was a factory called the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory where many, many, um, young women who worked there died in a horrible fire.
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12:14Amy FederHOST
And the first time I learned about-- I don't remember if I learned about it, um, or I passed by it.
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12:20Amy FederHOST
But-
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