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Because most immigrants were poor when they arrived, they often lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where rents for the crowded apartment buildings, called tenements, were low.
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www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ny/museum_1
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Focuses on America's urban immigrant history in New Yor ... that tells the stories of immigrants who lived in 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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www.tenement.org/
www.tenement.org/
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It was easy to overlook 97 Orchard Street. The building was but one of the thousands of tenements that sprouted up on the Lower East Side during the nineteenth century.
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www.tenement.org/index_virtual.html
www.tenement.org/index_virtual.html
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Through historical photos, students explore what life was like for poor immigrants living in tenements at the turn of the century. ... Despite the harsh tenement life, most immigrants recognized the freedom and opportunity America had to offer and settled into their new lives here, ... Ask how apartments are similar to the tenements.
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artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2314/
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Piecing It Together: Immigrants in the Garment Industry; This hour-long tour explores the lives of immigrant families and their experiences in the garment industry. Suitable for ages 8 and older. ... Turkish immigrants, the Shephardic-Jewish Confino family lived in the tenement around 1916. On this tour,
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www.fieldtrip.com/ny/24310233.htm
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In 1890, Riis published his most famous work, How the Other Half Lives, a book that used revealing photojournalism and detailed analysis of the housing problems afflicting poor immigrants to argue in favor of reforming New York's tenements.
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ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/people_riis.html
ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/people_riis.html
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"Observations of life in Lower Manhattan at the turn of the century." Articles, documentary sources, and study guides about life 1880-1920. ... Ida M. Van Etten "Russian Jews as Desirable Immigrants" ... Annie S. Daniel "The Wreck of the Home: How Wearing Apparel is Fashioned in the Tenements"
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tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html
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Of the newer immigrants, then, Italy has the most doubtful record as to crime, not so bad as it has been believed, but still bad enough. The crimes most usually committed by Italians are crimes of ... As to yard space, the law of 1867 provided for a distance of from 10 to 25 feet between front and rear tenements,
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tenant.net/Community/LES/clag2.html
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Regarding the apartment's floor space, I read in an encyclopedia that "Edo Period tenements were cramped because households averaged four members. "I was left with the impression that the writer of the article had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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www.lian.com/TANAKA/englishpapers/tenement.htm
www.lian.com/TANAKA/englishpapers/tenement.htm
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