The site of a former century-old synagogue for Ukrainian immigrants in the East Village is set to be torn down to make room ...

People who want to move, and can’t, grow more cynical, more pessimistic, more inclined to see the world as zero-sum. They may also grow more isolated, more set in their ways and habits. I think that a ...

Many of the old tenements that once instantiated the worst ... grown to encompass many of the areas once occupied by European immigrants. Gotham Court, one of Riis’s worst examples of tenement ...

The Tenement Museum in New York City offers visitors a unique opportunity to step back in time and experience what life was like for immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Danger to the community from tuberculous diseases emanating from the tenements was the principal subject considered at the second of a series of conferences on the tenement problem at 404 Fifth ...

In 1900, while living in this tenement, they had a son, Manuel Nunes Cotta, Jr. He would be their only child. As with many immigrants who rented their residence, the Cotta family moved a number of ...

For nearly 50 years a large number of the city’s Irish lived here in the various tenements multiple-family homes ... that formed the largest immigrant community in this locale. A majority belonged to ...

I thought I knew the story of tenements: that it was greedy landlords exploiting vulnerable immigrants and making them live in really horrifying conditions. But for most immigrants, tenements were ...