When: Friday, March 21, 2014 – 12:00 PM
Where: Happy Land Memorial Monument, East Tremont and Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY
Who: Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda
Wendy Rodriguez, Chair Person, Community Board 6
Ivine Galarza, District Manager, Community Board 6
Members and Staff of Bronx Community Board 6
Relatives and Friends of Victims of the Happy Land Fire
Comptroller Scott Stringer
Senator Ruben Diaz Sr.
Assemblyman Victor Pichardo
Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo
Council Member Fernando Cabrera
Members of the 48th Police Precinct
Members of the 18th Fire Battalion
Mike Blake
What: Assemblyman
Luis Sepulveda, Community Board 6, and other elected officials will
hold a press conference to remember the victims of the Happy Land Social
Club Fire, which occurred on March 25th 1990. The fire,
which was started deliberately, killed 87 people inside of the
nightclub. It was the second largest mass murder in New York City
history and one of the deadliest fires in the city since the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory fire 79 years earlier. In addition to the press
conference, a memorial mass will be held on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 7 PM
at Saint Thomas Aquinas Church, 1900 Crotona Parkway. A candlelight vigil will be held following the mass.
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