When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, New York City’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of American tenement life. At one point, almost three hundred thousand people were packed ...

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For 35 years, the Lower East Side's Tenement Museum has hewn to a strict methodology for its historical exhibits: It recreates the lives and apartments of families who actually lived in its two ...

The Tenement Museum's exhibit of the home of Joseph and Rachel Moore, Black New Yorkers who lived in Lower Manhattan’s tenements in the 1860s and 1870s. The Tenement Museum's exhibit of the home of ...

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Kat Lloyd stands in the dim light on the first-floor staircase of a dilapidated, New York City tenement building. Before her: a tour of wide-eyed teens on a field trip from their high school in Queens ...

The majority of New York City's population in the 19th Century lived in sub-standard conditions as vulnerable and low-income populations were housed in cramped and dangerous tenements. New York didn't ...

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 ...

FALL RIVER — History has left the city with landmarks, with mills, with streets and stories. Still, more than anything else, time has left us with the tenement house. Thousands of them. The ...

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