Museum of the City of New York. Now that Riis lives on in the name of a public housing project in a system that comprises the city’s worst current slums, a good case can be made that he went too ...

New York has still the worst housing system in the world. Eight fifteenths of its people live in tenements, not counting the better class of flats, though legally they come under the definition.

This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. ... The newspapers marveled that she was moving into a “slum” – a coal yard separated her house from ...

By the end of the 18th century, New York City's population had grown exponentially with thousands of immigrants looking for a better life in America. Many ended up settling down in the Big Apple ...

Life in New York City's Tenement Housing During the Gilded Age ** This clip is part of C-SPAN Classroom's FREE resources for teachers and students. Visit www.c-spanclassroom.org for more info. ** ...

Tenement Museum . Kira Garcia talked about New York City’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum, including an exhibit on how immigrant families coped with poverty and crowded conditions in the 19th ...

NEW YORK CITY - Immigration is a hot topic in 2018. One hundred years ago, it was, too. It was easier to immigrate to the United States at the turn of the last century, but the poor, tired and ...

To see this, we can look to history — the New York City tenement acts of the 19th and early 20th century created similar initiatives and benefits. Throughout the 19th century, epidemic disease ...

After World War II, Puerto Rican migration to the mainland catapulted. In 1945, there were only 13,000 Puerto Ricans in New York City, according to the Library of Congress.By the following year ...