New York City, June 1904. When flames consumed the paddleboat General Slocum, it claimed over 1,000 lives, mostly mothers and children – the city’s largest loss of life until 9/11. Join us in McSorley’s Old Ale House, a 160-year-old bar that sits next to 11 East 7th Street, one of many homes devastated by the tragedy. It’s a tale of corporate greed and government incompetence that killed the neighborhood once known as Little Germany.
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