Imagine sleeping in a wire cage smaller than a prison cell, cockroaches beneath your back, and air so toxic it makes your lungs bleed. In cities like Manila and Jakarta, this is not an exception—it’s ...

A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly ...

NEW YORK-- Once a grand building ... prompting tenants to call them a fire hazard. "It's a slum. It's a shame, you know what I'm saying, that people have to live like this," resident Thomas ...

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The very first thing we see is acres of rubble, and a sign: "This property purchased by the New York Housing Authority for slum clearance." That's an allusion to a real neighborhood that was ...

Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of New York's slums in his book, "How the Other Half Lives." He documented the poverty previously hidden in darkness using a ...

But the patronage of New York City’s political class came with strings attached. Home front “We have wiped out the sweatshop; we return to wipe out the slum,” intoned ILGWU President David ...

The slum sits just off the main road near Pragati Maidan. A map showing the Upper West side in New York City. The entire slum area is canvassed by trees. The same map now highlights 98th Street.