A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890.Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of ...
ONE of the latest evidences of growing American civilization is the interest manifested in housing reform. Stimulated largely by the work of the New York Tenement House Commission of 1901, many cities ...
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Inside New York’s 1900s slums in photos
By the end of the 18th century, New York City's population had grown exponentially with thousands of immigrants looking for a ...
Located at 97 and 103 Orchard St. in Manhattan, the Tenement Museum is devoted to telling the stories of 19th and 20th-century immigrants who inhabited the building, allowing visitors to take a step ...
Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, ...
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