From the 1850s through the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants arrived in the United States and lived in New York City. ... Becausemost immigrants were poor when they arrived, they often lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where rents for the crowded apartment buildings, called ten...
Three of us got a lovely guider who show us some flats from the early 1900's, helped to discover their family life and struggle, get the immigrant lifestyle. UpvoteDownvote Hugh RobertsonSeptember 7, 2017 Wonderful museum inside an old tenement building, telling the history of New York ...