BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//chikkutakku.com//RDFCal 1.0//EN X-WR-CALDESC:GoogleカレンダーやiCalendar形式情報を共有シェ アしましょう。近所のイベントから全国のイベントま で今日のイベント検索やスケジュールを決めるならち っくたっく X-WR-CALNAME:ちっくたっく X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Happy Land Social Club Fire NY\, NY (1990) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260325T040000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260326T040000Z UID:864641175781 DESCRIPTION:Before the blaze\, Happy Land was ordered closed for building code violations in November 1988. Violations included no fire exits\, alar ms or sprinkler system. No follow-up by the fire department was documented .[2]\nThe evening of the fire\, González had argued with his former girlf riend\, Lydia Feliciano\, a coat check girl at the club\, urging her to qu it. She claimed that she had had enough of him and wanted nothing to do wi th him anymore. González tried to fight back into the club but was ejecte d by the bouncer. He was heard to scream drunken threats in the process. G onzález was enraged\, not just because of losing Lydia\, but also because he had recently lost his job at a lamp factory\, was impoverished\, and h ad virtually no companions.[citation needed] González returned to the est ablishment with a plastic container of gasoline which he found on the grou nd and had filled at a gas station. He spread the fuel on the only stairca se into the club. Two matches were then used to ignite the gasoline.[citat ion needed]\nThe fire exits had been blocked to prevent people from enteri ng without paying the cover charge. In the panic that ensued\, a few peopl e escaped by breaking a metal gate over one door.[citation needed]\nGonzá lez then returned home\, took off his gasoline-soaked clothes and fell asl eep. He was arrested the following afternoon after authorities interviewed Lydia Feliciano and learned of the previous night's argument. Once advise d of his rights\, he admitted to starting the blaze. A psychological exami nation found him to be not responsible due to mental illness or defect\;[c itation needed] but the jury\, after deliberation\, found him to be crimin ally responsible.\n[edit]\nAftermath\nFound guilty on August 19\, 1991\, o f 87 counts of arson and 87 counts of murder\, González was charged with 174 counts of murder—two for each victim. For each count he received the sentence maximum of 25 years to life (a total of 4\,350 years). It was th e most substantial prison term ever imposed in the state of New York. He w ill be eligible for parole in March 2015 because New York law states that multiple murders occurring during one act will be served concurrently\, ra ther than consecutively.[3]\nThe building that housed Happy Land club was managed in part by Jay Weiss\, at the time the husband of actress Kathleen Turner.[4] The New Yorker quoted Turner saying that "the fire was unfortu nate but could have happened at a McDonald's."[5] The building's owner\, A lex DiLorenzo\, and leaseholders Weiss and Morris Jaffe\, were found not c riminally responsible\, since they had tried to close the club and evict t he tenant.[6]\nThe street outside the former Happy Land social club (which was located on the northwest corner of Southern Boulevard and East Tremon t Avenue in the Bronx) has been renamed "The Plaza of the Eighty-Seven" as a way of memorializing the victims. Five of the victims were students at nearby Theodore Roosevelt High School\, which held a memorial service for the victims in April 1990. A memorial was erected directly across the stre et from the former establishment with the names of all 87 victims enscribe d on it.\nThe arson was the subject of the Duran Duran song\, "Sin of the City" (where the song lyrics say 89 people died\, when in fact it was 87)\ , a Joe Jackson song\, "Happyland"\, and Tom Russell's song "A Dollar's Wo rth of Gasoline" from his Hurricane Season CD. It was also mentioned in th e Jay-Z song\, "You\, Me\, Him\, and Her." A fictionalized version of the arson\, where it was an arson intended to intimidate the Latino community\ , was featured on Law & Order.\nHappy Land Social Club Fire NY\, NY (1990) \nScheduled: Mar 25\, 2014\nBefore the blaze\, Happy Land was ordered clos ed for building code violations in November 1988. Violations included no f ire exits\, alarms or sprinkler system. No follow-up by the fire departmen t was documented.[2]\nThe evening of the fire\, González had argued with his former girlfriend\, Lydia Feliciano\, a coat check girl at the club\, urging her to quit. She claimed that she had had enough of him and wanted nothing to do with him anymore. González tried to fight back into the clu b but was ejected by the bouncer. He was heard to scream drunken threats i n the process. González was enraged\, not just because of losing Lydia\, but also because he had recently lost his job at a lamp factory\, was impo verished\, and had virtually no companions.[citation needed] González ret urned to the establishment with a plastic container of gasoline which he f ound on the ground and had filled at a gas station. He spread the fuel on the only staircase into the club. Two matches were then used to ignite the gasoline.[citation needed]\nThe fire exits had been blocked to prevent pe ople from entering without paying the cover charge. In the panic that ensu ed\, a few people escaped by breaking a metal gate over one door.[citation needed]\nGonzález then returned home\, took off his gasoline-soaked clot hes and fell asleep. He was arrested the following afternoon after authori ties interviewed Lydia Feliciano and learned of the previous night's argum ent. Once advised of his rights\, he admitted to starting the blaze. A psy chological examination found him to be not responsible due to mental illne ss or defect\;[citation needed] but the jury\, after deliberation\, found him to be criminally responsible.\n[edit]\nAftermath\nFound guilty on Augu st 19\, 1991\, of 87 counts of arson and 87 counts of murder\, González w as charged with 174 counts of murder—two for each victim. For each count he received the sentence maximum of 25 years to life (a total of 4\,350 y ears). It was the most substantial prison term ever imposed in the state o f New York. He will be eligible for parole in March 2015 because New York law states that multiple murders occurring during one act will be served c oncurrently\, rather than consecutively.[3]\nThe building that housed Happ y Land club was managed in part by Jay Weiss\, at the time the husband of actress Kathleen Turner.[4] The New Yorker quoted Turner saying that "the fire was unfortunate but could have happened at a McDonald's."[5] The buil ding's owner\, Alex DiLorenzo\, and leaseholders Weiss and Morris Jaffe\, were found not criminally responsible\, since they had tried to close the club and evict the tenant.[6]\nThe street outside the former Happy Land so cial club (which was located on the northwest corner of Southern Boulevard and East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx) has been renamed "The Plaza of the Eighty-Seven" as a way of memorializing the victims. Five of the victims w ere students at nearby Theodore Roosevelt High School\, which held a memor ial service for the victims in April 1990. A memorial was erected directly across the street from the former establishment with the names of all 87 victims enscribed on it.\nThe arson was the subject of the Duran Duran son g\, "Sin of the City" (where the song lyrics say 89 people died\, when in fact it was 87)\, a Joe Jackson song\, "Happyland"\, and Tom Russell's son g "A Dollar's Worth of Gasoline" from his Hurricane Season CD. It was also mentioned in the Jay-Z song\, "You\, Me\, Him\, and Her." A fictionalized version of the arson\, where it was an arson intended to intimidate the L atino community\, was featured on Law & Order.\n\nhttp://www.fireengineeri ng.com/articles/print/volume-154/issue-8/features/happy-land-fire-have-we- learned-the-lessons.html\n LOCATION: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR