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The Happy Land fire was an act of arson that killed 87 people on March 25, 1990, in the Bronx in New York City, United States. The 87 victims were trapped in the unlicensed Happy Land social club, located at 1959 Southern Boulevard in the West Farms section of the Bronx. Most of the victims were young Hondurans celebrating Carnival, many of ...
Jan 10, 2022 · The fire at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx in 1990 left 87 people dead. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. By Jenny Gross. Jan. 10, 2022. The Bronx fire that killed 17 people on Sunday was ...
Mar 17, 2015 · Mark Lennihan/AP Photo. Julio Gonzalez, center, was arraigned in New York State Supreme Court in the Bronx on April 11, 1990, for allegedly setting the March 25 Happy Land Social Club fire.
Feb 18, 2021 · How The Happy Land Fire Killed 87 People In Minutes Michael Norcia/New York Post Archives /NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images Half of the 87 people killed in the tragedy were no older than 25. On that fateful March evening, a crowd of young people — mostly Hondurans and mostly under 25 — flocked to the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx.
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Mar 25, 2020 · Thirty years ago, 87 people died when a jealous lover set a fire at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx. An oral history of what happened next.
VIDEO: A look back at Happy Land 30 years later Julio Gonzalez, suspect in the Happy Land social club fire in the Bronx, New York City in March 1990 (AP PHOTO) Revelers packed the location, which had been previously cited for fire code violations, on the night of March 25, 1990.
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Sep 15, 2016 · The fire occurred 79 years to the day after 146 garment workers — many of them young immigrants, too — died in a fire at the Triangle shirt factory in Lower Manhattan, a calamity that awakened ...
