It was a few minutes after 9’o’clock on a sunny, humid day in June just 106 years ago. The excursion boat General Slocum was moored to her dock on East 3rd Street on the Lower East Side. It was a big ...

What began as a church outing for over 1,300 people became New York’s deadliest maritime disaster. When the General Slocum caught fire in 1904, chaos, failure, and heartbreak followed. This is the ...

When the General Slocum caught fire and burned in the East River on June 15, 1904, everyone became a first responder. Firefighters and other emergency workers teamed with civilians who tried ...

Before the attack on the World Trade Center, this was the greatest tragedy in New York history. It happened just 108 years ago on June 15th. It was a beautiful, sunny morning. And down at a pier on ...

On this very day 107 years ago, the General Slocum sank in the East River—at that time, it was the greatest tragedy in New York history (did you forget?). The steamship's demise was revisited a couple ...

Dozens gathered Saturday at All Faiths Cemetery in Queens to honor the more than 1,000 people who died in the General Slocum steamboat disaster on June 15, 1904. The passenger steamer was packed with ...

Until the events of September 11th, the sinking of the General Slocum disaster was responsible for the largest loss of life in New York City. The tragedy forever changed the composition of the Lower ...

Paul Hashagen details what happened when a Sunday-school picnic excursion turned into a flame- and water-filled nightmare. New York has been the site of more than 2,000 shipwrecks and marine accidents ...