 On April 13, 1913, the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse in Lower Manhattan was constructed on the roof of the Seamen's Church Institute.Straus Park, on the Upper West Side, commemorates Isidor Straus and his wife Ida, who both died in the disaster.The Malbone Street Wreck, the worst disaster in the history of any rapid transit system in the United States, occurred on November 1, 1918.