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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

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