General Slocum Memorial (New York City, New York)

Kathleen recommends this memorial to a horrible riverboat fire which killed over 1,000 people in 1904: “The next time you’re in NYC you may want to stop by the General Slocum memorial in Tompkins Square Park. After the Slocum fire the entire East Village neighborhood changed radically. Most of the hundreds of children who died in the fire were the children of local German immigrants, and the surviving families, stricken with grief, moved en masse either uptown to Germantown or left the city entirely.”