That my friend is very true.
Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
Working class. Manual workers.
They mainly lived in the Lower New York in places called "tenements". They stuck to their culture, because that's all they knew. They lived in Lower New York, because after they crossed through Ellis Island, they couldn't afford much of anything. So they all moved to the closest places they could from the shore after Ellis Island
Irish immigrants lived in tenements.......
Tenements.
Many immigrants lived in urban apartment slums called flats. These flats held a great many people and were often overcrowded.
immigrants lived in tenements and some of there kitchens had no windows.
Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
Working class. Manual workers.
recent immigrants
They mainly lived in the Lower New York in places called "tenements". They stuck to their culture, because that's all they knew. They lived in Lower New York, because after they crossed through Ellis Island, they couldn't afford much of anything. So they all moved to the closest places they could from the shore after Ellis Island
immigrants
Irish immigrants lived in tenements.......
Those immigrants who settled in New York during the 19th and early 20th centuries lived in inexpensive rented housing in Manhattan and later in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. Many lived in small, crowded apartments called tenements
Tenements.
Jacob Riis exposed the problem in tenements by taking pictures of the life in tenements. He showed these pictures to the government and to the people populated in areas which held a lot of tenements where many immigrants lived.