The Unimaginable Filth in 1800s New York's Dirtiest Slum (Rag Pickers and Garbage Dumps)
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2023
- Immigrants to 1800s New York lived in unimaginable squalor, and Italians searching for jobs were exploited in the horror of the garbage dumps, where gangs of men were living, eating and sleeping surrounded by filth. This is the story of the experience Italians were met with when arriving in New York, told by Jacob Riis.
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" I came to America bcuz I heard the streets were paved with gold. I quickly learned 3 things.
1) They were not paved in gold
2) The streets were not paved at all
3) I was the one expected to pave them"
- Italian Immigrant
Well bend that back and get with it.....
I should have read your post before I posted the same "joke." It sums up the 1900s immigrant experience very succinctly!
Erm it’s applicable to immigrants coming into western countries today. They also believe London is paved with gold
And it's not true that they are paved with cheese either
Yes we work
Turns out New York hasn't changed a bit 😂
Jacob Riis's photography is so fascinating to see. It's like you go back in time and get to see the real deal. 😊
It really is!
I am semi-obsessed w/ his work & photography. Just amazing.
Same
Arriving at Ellis Island, instead of staying in New York, my Italian grandparents went to Illinois, thank goodness..And thar is why I still live here..
Chicago had slums too, but perhaps your grandparents went elsewhere?
@@FactFeast I agree in the cities a hell hole..They lived 40 miles south of Chicago..The whole neighborhood block were Italians, another block Irish, etc..By the time I was born 1948, we lived with them the first 5yrs of my life..Wonderful memories of huge grapevine, lots of tomatoes, in backyard..Thank you for all you do putting videos up. Ciao
Mine too and Milwaukee
And Chicago was and is so much better than NYC? Pls don't make me laugh....
@@Dawn-qq3gv exactly👍🏽
This man's voice and range are phenomenal
Glad you enjoyed!
My Italian grandfather born 1898 in Italy settled in Pittsburgh he had a job waiting for him as a blacksmith working for the B&O railroad . After the first world war he was given an honorary citizenship for his bravery during the war. He still had to pay for his own passage had to have a job and a sponsor and a place to stay before he was albe to come. Took 5 yrs of saving for him to pay for my grandmother's voyage. Hazelwood in Pittsburgh near the J&L steel mill was an Irish/ Italian neighborhood. All the row houses have been since torn down for condominiums. The steel mill closed tore down. My Italian Great grandfather came over before his son was a stonemason brought over before world war 1 to build a church. The Craftsmen were sent back to Italy after the church was complete. Their whole way of life is gone . The job opportunities for them coming over here no longer exists.
That was a cool story about the incredible journey of an amazing man. WW1... that's horrific. What a brave man. Share his story as much as possible. I talk about my grandfather who served as a Marine in the Pacific at Peleliu during WW2. These men and their individual stories must be preserved.
@@rush1er yes I agree!! My grandfather was in tbe Arditi they were a Italian special military force that went in and cleared the the trenches with a knife. He did a mission along with the United States was captured put in a German prison camp. Sadly he past away 1945 we were told a brain aneurysm but as I researched it we think it was meningitis. A small epidemic was going around at the time. Awe my mom his daughter got polio in 1933 but lived till 90. My mom passed last year. So proud of my family. And that's just my mom's side My Father's side I could fill a book poor moonshiners from West Virginia.
@@mojojeinxs9960Glad you’ve done well for yourself, at least all their efforts and heartaches paid off so their descendants live a better life. I read your story, thumbs up 👍 very poignant and inspiring.
If today’s generations knew how good they have it, they would be perhaps more appreciative of everything…Cheers to your health and our ancestors..🍻salud.
All the hard work he went threw to gain citizenship now the borders are wide open. It's a shame.
Exactly. We came from Italy in the early 1960s as a family. We were sponsored and my father had to have a job waiting for him when he got here. We all became American citizens 1968.
And no such thing as bilingual stores, doctors, teachers, documents or anything of that sort.
The slum parts in USA looks alot like London in the 1800s parts of London was horrific Annmarie UK
Lots of videos about London’s slums and rookeries on my channel.
My man! I'm loving your work. Keep up the good work!
Much appreciated!
I love NYC history and this was an amazing piece of work. Great photographs also!👏🏻
Glad you enjoyed it!
"My grandfather came to America because he heard that the streets were paved with gold.
When he arrived, he learned three things:
1. The streets were not paved with gold;
2. The streets were not paved; and
3. It was his job to pave them."
- Old Jewish Immigrant "Joke."
Well. This offers some perspective to modern complaints about "dirty" cities. New York was the Lagos of the 19th century.
Excellent video as always!
Thanks Brian. Much appreciated 👋🏼🙂
Say..." New York City?!?!?!?"😮 Like the Pace picante commercial 😂
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Last part of my research Italian immigrants have work projects , digging canals , gasoline, , building bridges , laying paving. New York subway system . In 1890 nearly 90 percent of laborers in New York Department of Public Works were Italian immigrants. Many Italian immigrants especially women and children work dark unsafe factories around New York, sweatshops. Fire broke out at trangle shirwaist factory in 1911 , killing 146 workers nearly half of victims were young Italian women . Best wishes for you your family friends.
I married an Italian girl 50 years ago and her family treated me way better than mine.
Lovely people.
Great narrator
These videos about hardship make me feel better about my messed up life. Thank you
Glad you like the narration. Thanks for your comment.
As you said, they did not have it easy when they immigrated. I watched a youtube film about Little Big Horn. The skeletons of the fallen soldiers revealed that many were recent immigrants for who joining the army was a way into becoming citizens.
there's still quite a bit of "unimaginable filth" in NYC today
Thanks F.F.❤
My pleasure Lana. Thank you too 😊
@@FactFeast Yw😊
Tip-top quality narration! I absolutely enjoy every video
Wow, thanks very much!
Yes all of us our ancestors went through hell. They had to build this country up now we have it build up and everybody wants to come and take a free ride. Just as they're doing in the UK.
Great video as always!
I really appreciate that eekbeatsofficial 👍
My Italian & Jewish people. Eventually settling on Long Island, where I still live today.
Great content i await every up load thank you from a history buff
Thanks for such great support 😊
*WHY DO I FEEL I'M BEING SCOLDED*
Spellbinding narrator of such an interesting subject. Many thanks for sharing. From Ruth x
Thank you very much! 😊
I find this interesting, because my family never lived in big cities, my maternal side of the family were part of the first settlers, and my paternal side have been farming in lower central michigan for over almost 200 year's. I can remember both great grandparents telling stories of the horse and wagon day's, and how much harder it was to raise cattle and grow crops. I don't know how people survived the big cities here, or in europe, but it explains the high infant and child mortality rates. My one granny had 8 siblings, the other grandma had two sister's. My grandpa had one brother, because his dad died when he was pretty young, but his mom never re married. The other grandpa had two sister's. I have never heard that any of their children dying. I can't imagine being a slum lord, making money from the most poor, while leaving them in such sub standard living quarter's. G-d bless, and another great video.
Interesting comment about your family history. Thank you very much!
In all honesty, I am happy that your ancestors were able to find that sweet spot and succeed with very little, if any, troubles. Yet, once potentially unscrupulous people, if not already, so, discovered they could make money exploiting desperate people, it opened the door for unfettered greed. That’s called free market capitalism.
People of all races and nationalities have been taking advantage of other people since the dawn of time. Not capitalism, human nature.
amazing work again FF, would love to hear more about homelessness in the USA in the 19th century cities and also travelling vagrants who toured the countryside like Leatherman
Get the book "How the other half lives" by Jacob Riis. A NYC journalist who photographed and wrote about the deplorable conditions in 1880-1900 NY slums.
We currently have 2 million homeless in the USA. Look around you.
@@karlabritfeld7104 so why did you watch this video?
I’m interested in historical accounts, plus I live in England.
In the 1800's there were THOUSANDS of merchants who came to NYC each & everyday
with a cart & a horse to sell their good. These merchants knew NOTHING about animals and would leave the horse or mule standing in harness all the livelong day without water, without food and it was a regular occurrence for some of these horses to drop dead from exhaustion or the heat or the cold. The merchant would unhitch the beast & walk down the street to the nearest livery stable & buy or rent another. The problem was so bad the the city of NY had to establish a dead horse dept whose job it was to drive the streets of NY and pick up dead horses.
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Mix 'em into the hotdog supply
Horrid
How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Honestly with every new video I learn new information and new vocabularies. Squalor means being extremely dirty and unpleasant , filth . As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s Italian immigrants came to America in search for work and money . Italian Americans usually settled where jobs were easily find . One of oldest neighborhood in newyork city where immigrants settled there . When Italians arrived in America 1840s , five points was populated and diseases and crimes , area notorious for tenement buildings and lawlessness. Newyork has been called Italian America Capital because of largest Italian immigrants.italian immigrants had worked as farmers , where thus qualified only for unskilled and more dangerous urban labor .
Thank you! I’m glad you found some new and interesting history.
If you want an interesting read,
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES . book about NYC tenements in the first part of the 1900’s
Hiya Fact Feast, firstly I enjoyed this vlog on New York, have you watched the latest vlog on Jack The Ripper tours? its 1 hour 30 minutes long but its a good one, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Thank you for the information, I hadn’t heard of that. I’m glad you enjoyed watching.
My little Italy. Lol I am from Brooklyn. You people should come visit all are welcome.
I'm spawn of Italian grandparents and uncles. Fruit and nut vendors or professional boxers.
living in disgusting conditions but still pumped out the young un,s
It propper annoys me aswel, Like Spittalfield nippers, living penniless but still manage to give birth to large families
I love your voice in the docs. Not shrill or annoying at all. We’ll done.
Thank you for writing!
That's how the mafia was born trying to make an honest living with hands in ur pockets wasn't keeping ur belly full
The mafia was born in Italy.
Members of the Mafia would’ve migrated to the U.S.A along with all the other Italians.
Nothing new under the sun 🌞
It’s only gotten far worse 🤢
The ashes should have gone to the land as fertilizer
Padrones, that sounds bit Spanish, (patrones) but Italian and Portuguese are easier to understand by Spanish people, Now, Catalan difficult,is a different dialect even though is spoken in Spain. Castilian is spoken in Spain, which is Spanish.
It’s “Padroni” meaning owners or masters. To say it in English as plural they add the letter s.
But the the letter i at the end of the word means it’s plural.
padroni is plural…. adding the s makes it plural in English.
Having better opportunities were a hoax and those immigrants got scammed.
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Thank you! Glad you liked it.
El Patron a😂
Unimaginable? Take a walk and you can imagine it.
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Thank you Miji 🙂
But why was it like that?
debt 38 trillion !
I like the Italians we need more fettuccini
I'm gonna take a shower
A lot of Italians pooled money and bought land in Pennsylvania
i noticed youre keeping your voice down a bit sweet sir thank you
Glad you like it 🙂
This is all the people who emigrated know. They come from generations and cultures of this type of lifestyle....
No
Get the Patty wagon
Human trafficking was always a thing then.
Hot , humility, dirty 😢
You know Irish people weren't even considered white when they all first got here...crazy stuff.
they’re Caucasian aren’t they? That’s bizarre . But then again Americans don’t include indopaks as Asians 😂. Makes me wonder what continent they think Indopaks come from
Should have turned around and went back home.
"Unimaginable" filth? I'll have you know as a recent escapee that NYC has not changed much, if at all, in this respect.
Unimaginable filth lol
The Cornish didn't stay in some stinking city.
Not much difference now 😂
Thank God my ancestors were of German decent.
You mean…other skin colors had hardships?!! No way!!!
Compare this hard life to that of the spoiled little brats of today.
Just like the temporary workers scheme that’s playing out in today’s factories.
What factories? There aren’t any. Everything is made in other countries.
This is exactly the culture these people had in their homelands 😂 who expected different?
That’s a lie. What they didn’t have was enough food. Most of them lived in the country NOT cities.
Stop. How many people in these types of pictures end up with children who are successful and living in the suburbs.
A lot of those people's children survived, worked, built businesses, and yeah.. succeeded.
Poor is one thing. Filthy dirty is completely unacceptable. You can always be clean
Those living conditions in tenements in places like E.Harlem NYC were built with no concern to human dignity.
Cold water flats with no running hot water, no bathtubs, no heat. Coal dust was everywhere stored in apts to feed in a furnace to keep warm during winter. Nevermind that a shared single toilet in a hallway among 4 families to a floor was what the city built . Those buildings mostly got bulldozed during 1960s as they were deemed unfit for inhabitants to create the projects for the poor as a better living standard.
Being poor then was different to poor today.
Unbelievable that people worked day and night back breaking labor and that the city built substandard unsanitary dwellings for them.
Exploiting the greenhorns was an old American tradition.
….and became citizens and never owned slaves and have no historic attachment to “white privilege” nor operate out of it. Our ancestors worked hard to make a life in this country and passed down strong values through the generations that have stuck for a great many of us who know how fortunate we are to be Americans.
So true.
Imagine that 😳 people have been pigs 🐖 😳 for generations.
Wow, now you can substitute those from the US border living in NYC hotels paid by taxpayers for the Italians. They’re in NYC, jobless, begging in the nyc subways, it’s horrible.
If they are from the u.s border that makes them american
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No it doesn’t. It makes them invaders. Spoiled brat invaders that think we owe them food and shelter . They don’t appreciate either.
Our history of mistreatment of immigrants. Of abuse, exploitation and hate! Prejudice is part of our history. My family was one of those Italian families, but they came after Hitler had destroyed norther Italy. They stayed 5 months and boarded another ship to Cuba, then to Puerto Rico…were 22 grandchildren were born.
Then, of course, I had to deal with the prejudice against Latinos. Never ending insecurity, why?
If your family kept moving on to Cuba and Puerto Rico after 5 months, you shouldn't be experiencing any Latino prejudice there. 😄
We all came from immigrants. Whites weren’t here.
Prejudice is part of world history. It's a horrible thing, but not at all exclusive to one country.
So let me get this straight. Italians had it worse than the Germans,polish, and Irish? Hahahaha. Regardless, we're all "white" now. Again Hahahaha.
I have Czech and Ireland ancestors on my mom's side. German and Native American on my dad's. They settled in the country, learned English, started businesses, sent their kids to college as far back as the 1880s, and prospered. Italians stayed in cities, uneducated, and suffered. So yes, they did have it worse.