Collins, Glenn. " A 100-Year-Old Horror, Through 9/11 Eyes; In the Sinking of the Slocum, a Template For the Arc of a City's Grief and Recovery", The New York Times, 8 juni 2004. Geraadpleegd op 20 november 2007. "The disaster helped accelerate the flight of Germans from the Lower East Side to Yorkville and other neighborhoods, although there were other motivations as well. The very dense old housing on the Lower East Side was no longer attractive to upwardly mobile Germans, said Dr. John Logan, director of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the State University of New York at Albany."
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Strausbaugh, John. "Paths of Resistance in the East Village", The New York Times, September 14, 2007. Geraadpleegd op 29 december 2007. "On June 15, 1904, about 1,200 people from St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church (323 Sixth Street, between First and Second Avenues, the site of the Community Synagogue since 1940) died when the steamship the General Slocum, taking them on a day trip up the East River, burned. It was the deadliest disaster in the city before Sept. 11, 2001. It traumatized the community and hastened residents’ flight to uptown areas like Yorkville."
