On today's 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, we decided to take a look back at the other major disasters that occurred inside the five boroughs.
It turns out that the 1911 tragedy that claimed 146 souls in Lower Manhattan wasn't even the city's worst day.
There are twelve other additional horrors in Big Apple history that combined to claim 5,173 lives.
#13 The Ninth Avenue Derailment
The worst subway accident in NYC history resulted in 13 deaths when an above-ground subway train headed uptown took a turn at unsafe speed and careened down onto Ninth Avenue.
Eerily, the accident took place on September 11th, 1905.
#12 American Airlines Flight 320
On February 3rd, 1959, in what was apparently a botched attempt to approach the landing strip at LaGuardia Airport, the newly unveiled "Electra" aircraft crashed into the East River killing 65 of the 73 people aboard.
#11 Kew Gardens Train Crash
When the brakes failed on an Eastbound LIRR train, packed with rush hour commuters, it became stuck in a dark tunnel where it was rear-ended by another packed train.
The collision resulted in the deaths of 78 people on November 22nd, 1950. 363 people were injured.
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