Rights of Immigrants Ignored,
Responsibilities of Slumlords Unfulfilled:
The New York Tenement Crisis
Title
Home
Background
Rights
Responsibilities
Health and Safety
Legislation
Impact
Architecture
Conclusion
Gallery
Research
Process Paper
Annotated Bibliography
Life in tenements was very tough
Drugstores, street signs and common workers in Lower Manhattan
A usual, overcrowded tenement
Tenement life in big city.
This is what many of the fire escapes looked like.
Sleeping conditions due to overcrowding
Tenement kitchen in lower East Side New York in 1945
97 Orchard Street, Lower East Side
Research