Haunting photos capture the life inside the squalid New York’s tenements, 1885-1900 _ Throwback American Life
Haunting photos capture the life inside the squalid New York’s tenements, 1885-1900 _ Throwback American Life
A boom in New York’s population in the mid-to-late 1800s led to the rise of tenement housing in lower Manhattan. Tenements were low-rise buildings with multiple apartments, which were narrow and typically made up of three rooms. Because rents were low, ...

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