Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of New York's slums in his book ... His work led to changes in the city and prompted then-Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt ...

In this gallery, we bring you a glimpse of what life in a New York City tenement looked like. Click on. You may also like: In the 19th century, thousands of people emigrated to the US. In New York ...

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That is, when people follow their hearts and instincts to re-energize dead zones that we used to call slums. And do so ... s happened since testifies to New York City’s unparalleled regenerative ...

1840s New York was a city in transition ... These new settlement patterns fundamentally changed the character of the city. Slums, like the notorious Five Points neighbourhood, became home to ...

In 1924, Smith, the popular, cigar-chomping product of New York City's immigrant slums, began appointing the Yale- and Oxford-educated Moses to commissions that enabled him to start accumulating ...

New York’s Senator Robert F. Wagner introduced, among other features of his proposed Unemployment relief legislation, the idea of lending Federal funds for city slum clearance. Robert Ferdinand ...

Kenmare Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, just above Little Italy, was named after an Irish immigrant’s mother. The story of Kenmare Street in downtown New York City is one of famine ...