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 ...

The older tenements on the lower east side become ... And that intermingling, I think, is what’s distinctive to New York City — as opposed to the culture of the uptown elites, who are really ...

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 Tenement Museum now permanently features an ...

(JTA) — The Tenement Museum, which tells the stories of Jewish and other immigrants who lived on New York City’s Lower East Side, announced that it is laying off its tour guides and other part ...

The immigrant experience of an Irish family fleeing the Great Famine lives on at the Tenement Museum in New York City. The After the Famine: 1869 tour takes you back in time to see how the Moores ...

It is not overpopulated. New York City and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company substituted for filthy tenements excellent, modern, low-rental housing with plenty of light and air and views all ...

In the 19th century, New York City was filled with more than 1 million immigrants living in poverty. Despite the vast number, they were easy to ignore because they lived in windowless tenements ...

Any student and enthusiast of New York City’s urban development knows Jacob A. Riis, author of the book How The Other Half ...

Dr. James Peter Warbasse opined in the journal Co-operation, “Once the people of New York City lived in their own houses, but those days have gone. ... The houses are owned by landlords who ...

Is there a better writer of urban American stories than Richard Price? His resume is hart to beat: To episodes of HBO’s “The ...