“I was born in Lackawanna in the shadow of the Bethlehem Steel Plant, where my father and his family worked to pursue the American dream,” said Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul. “The ...

The former Bethlehem Steel Blast Furnace serves as a backdrop during much of the parade. It's done as way to recognize that the old Bethlehem Steel is gone, but not forgotten. The parade and Labor ...

And of that number 25,000 were working for Bethlehem Steel Corporation, 2,200 of them in the Bethlehem plant. Many of these women were not unfamiliar with working in industry. It had been ...

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, who formed the Sumitomo Task Force, mentioned the closing of the Bethlehem Steel plant in ... was closing the century-old tire plant along the Niagara River ...

When the Bethlehem Steel plant closed in 1983 (31 years ago), Lackawanna ... beautification and saving of the old buildings would have perhaps never solidified the way it has as of late.

The transformation of the former Bethlehem Steel plant shows that the country’s (and the Valley’s) economy can evolve, he said. “The U.S. economy isn’t just one big monolith, it’s a ...