New York slum district, 1890. Jacob Riis Portrait of a junk man’s living quarters in the cellar of a New York City tenement house. Jacob Riis This truth is absent in “How the Other Half Lives.” ...

The compliant new housing propelled New York City to a safer future for everyone. Today, as the most devastating infectious disease crisis in over a century continues, we need reform again.

NYC Tenement Museum now features Black family's apartment NEW YORK -- CBS New York is celebrating the first day of Black History Month with a glimpse back at Black life here in the city in the 1870s.

The newspapers marveled that she was moving into a “slum” – a coal yard separated her house from the river, and the view from her front windows was of the tenement across 57th Street. By the late ...

New York's Tenement Museum has reopened to visitors after a year-long renovation. Located at 97 and 103 Orchard St. in Manhattan, the Tenement Museum is devoted to telling the stories of 19th and ...

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.

Famed photojournalist Jacob Riis used newly invented flash photography to shock people into action with photos of crime and child poverty.

How the Tenement Museum Got a New Tenant Two historians take a tour of the latest exhibition, which tells the story of a Black family by featuring, for the first time, a non-resident.

NYC Tenement Museum’s Black Migration Exhibit Premieres In February Visitors can explore the Black migrant experience in post-Civil War era New York City through a 75-minute guided, multimedia tour.

In New York it found 62.58 per cent of the population of the slum to be foreign-born, whereas for the whole city the percentage of foreigners was only 43.23.