1900s USA - Surviving New York City's Most Dangerous Slum
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2024
- Experience the past through RARE PHOTOS of life in America's most BRUTAL neighborhood.
Welcome to a journey back in time, where the bustling streets of modern New York City give way to the echoes of its past. In this video, we delve into the heart of the tenement districts of New York City at the turn of the 20th century, a time capsule of urban life over a century ago.
Discover the Untold Stories: Uncover the day-to-day realities of those who lived in the tenements, their struggles, hopes, and dreams amidst the challenging conditions of early urban life.
Experience a unique visual exploration through carefully selected photographs. These poignant images, rich in detail and narrative, offer a window into a world long gone but not forgotten. Compare the stark differences between the New York of yesteryears and the city we know today. Witness how these neighborhoods have transformed over decades.
This video is not just a collection of images; it's a tribute to the resilience and spirit of those who called the tenements home, whose legacy forms an integral part of New York's rich history.
Join us as we step back in time to explore the unseen corners of New York City's history.
Thanks for watching The History Lounge!
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My grandfather came from Sicily alone at age 11 in 1896 through Ellis Island to live with his married sister, her husband and kids in Five Points aka Little Italy. He didn’t speak a word of English and worked as a newsboy for a while. Eventually he married an Irish immigrant girl working as a teacher, joined the Democratic Party in NY and got a political patronage as a court clerk. Don’t judge, it was the way it often went then. He retired as chief clerk of the courts in Queens county. He never talked much about his early years in America but I’m sure they were not easy. Somehow he managed to avoid the gangs. One of his favorite things to do in his later years besides the racetrack and Yankee games (especially during the Berra and DiMaggio era) was the NY Times crossword puzzle which considering his background I thought was pretty impressive. When he got a word he would often say “in Italian it is…”. He has been dead since 1979 but I still think about him often.
Oh my goodness! Your Grandpa was just like mine! My Grandpa came to NY from Sicily via Ellis Island in 1905. He married a beautiful immigrant from Naples who just got to NY the year before him. They lived in Brooklyn, moved to Maspeth and then finally settled in Massapequa Park in the 1960's. He was a hard worker. He was an iron union worker. His company in Westbury was behind many important projects all over NY.
.@@millster9389 It is a very small world. My grandfather owned a two family house in Maspeth and we lived there for a while after my parents married before we moved to Massapequa Park in 1964!
Great comments - thank you for contributing!
@@TheHistoryLounge Thank you for great content!
. . ✨ .. incredibly sad at 5:30 where three very young children are shown huddled together, shoeless and without an adult . .the feet of one boy stands out, either stained black from coal soot or God forbid, from frostbite . ..this pic was taken clearly 100+ years ago and my heart just cried to see them this way . .🕊
The facial expression on the rightmost boy at 5:18 says everything you need to know about that time period.
That was a great trip back in time. I'll never complain about my situation again!
Amen to that!!
Interesting and very sad.
Many people of all cultures had a hard life back-in-the-day, and not just rural areas with dirt floor cabins.
Thank you for showing these . It puts our lives today more in perspective .
As a kid over here in the UK in the1940s there were places like this not too far from where I grew up.
Very well chosen music . You do a great job .
Good points, @ry491. And thanks for your kind words.
Cherish what you have.
Thanks for this. Their lives were hell on earth.
My grandfather and his 11 siblings all began working from the age of 7. They worked in the textile mills and other factories, earning 30 cents per day. All their money was collected by my great-grandfather, who used it to finance a farm in Pennsylvania. The older kids, who could do hard physical labor, went to work on the farm, the younger kids stayed in the city and worked in the factories. Eventually all of them grew into doing farm work, and due to the labor of the entire family, they built one of the most successful farms in the state. It still exists today, and is still run by my relatives. Very few of the young people shown in the photos remained in the slums their entire lives, most worked their way up toward bigger and better things.
On each face there is hope that things will get better. Heartbreaking seeing the children slumped exposed to the elements without shoes. I own a home have a job money food. Man i still complain, i feel so glad for my situation after seeing this.
Great photos and PERFECT accompanying music!
Visited the tenement museum in NYC and toured one of these buildings. Eye opening how people used to live.
“These kids today” - should have to see this in schools.
ABSOLUTELY! The book, "The Gangs of New York" was a REQIIRED read in my college English class.
Loved that.."If you look closely" bit at the end.
I just happen to be reading Jacob Riis's book. This brings what I'm reading to life. Thanks for posting this.
Cool! Yeah - that book combined with Riis's photos really helped initiate some changes.
Can you do a video on the shocking slums of new york 2020s?
😂
Why don’t you make a video on why people are fascinated with slums in the first place? Does it make them feel better about themselves? Do you enjoy scoffing at others in a worse predicament? Do you compare yourself to people who lost everything and laugh at them? Are you always condescending others?
@@mariecolette9066it's an attempt to show how bad humanity has always been, it's not persnal.
@@mariecolette9066my husband ask buy the way, then why are you watching it?
@Dave67user-tc5km2nc6eAmen.
On each face there is hope that things will get better. Heartbreaking seeing the children slumped exposed to the elements without shoes. I own a home have a job money food. Man i still complain, i feel so glad for my situation after seeing this.
I lived on Mulberry St in the Lower East Side for a short time in the 1990s. It's changed a lot just since then. It's crazy to see it 120 years ago.
The demographic change is insanely noticeable.
Phenomenal photographs. One looks into the faces of these people and wonders what hope they might have had for their futures
Don't you wonder what they were escaping?
Seeing little children, bare-filthy-footed, dressed in filthy rags, trying to sleep in doorways is unbelievable for a first-world country. Although people live better today thanks to the welfare state, things still need improving. Sometimes I think we are regressing i.e. the rising cost of living, lack of jobs and social housing etc.
@TheHistoryLounge: Kudos once again Kevin! 👍👏👏 Between the photos and the music, the despair and hopelessness depicted is almost palpable. Where you have actual addresses of photos, it'd be interesting to see "then and now" shots (as you've done before...and quite well, I might add). Keep up the gteat work.
Thanks, Bruce - I really appreciate it!
This is exactly what was described by Lucy Parsons and Jane Addams in their various books regarding slums, wages, and unionization at that time in Chicago (and New York). Child workers, needle women, families living in dire straits. This was an incredible look into that era and presented well. Thank you.
Thank you, Joseph
I guess it was better than back in the old country. These folks continued to tell their families back in Europe to sail for America
Such a hard hard life 😢
Those poor children having to live under those conditions. I literally just told my kids I dont ever want to hear them complain when the WiFi cuts out for whatever reason.
Ya, we have all newer slums now.
Somewhat reminds me of San Francisco today. Great watch.....
Feeling grateful for every little thing I have showers, bed, flushing toilet, clean clothes and food. 😢
First slumlord NY billionaire JJ Astor. Well done, man.
These people had it rough 😢
Europe and elsewhere had much much worse conditions from wars and civil unrest so America and the awful boat ride was a good trade.
Life in the slums back then and today.in the projects, a person's daily life was/is very challenging .
Nothing to life= in the city, unless you're making big money and can go home to the outskirts
This is a great site.
Of course all the people in these photos are dead now, but yet some of them have descendants who are living somewhere now, perhaps the same area
You know what's worse than this? There are still slums over 100 years later.
*You know what's worse than this? There are still slums over 100 years later*
Thank you 🙏
You're very welcome - thank you for watching!
I've often dreamed what this world would have become, had the wealth of Rockefeller, Morgan, Chase and ilk, been invested into the poor? I'm no socialist by any stretch, but being extremely generous to people in desperate poverty, seems to me, to be the most human of all emotions, desires, and goals. It was for this disparity between the wealthy and the poor that Jesus/Yeshua taught about, when He spoke about the Rich Man and Lazarus.
These particularly can thank Astor- the largest slumlord ever, especially in the 1800s.
You are a socialist, if it concerns other people's money.
You will get pie in the sky when you die
I think your channel is excellent and I am going to share it and keep coming back but just as a note, I think black and white photos are more impactful than colorized ones, which tend to detract from both the photo and the emotion.
So much for White privilege! 🙄
I wouldn't be surprised if my great-grandfather was one of these homeless orphaned kids in New York City. 5:10
Very sad they had a very hard life
A life of mere existence until death welcomed you to eternity. Thats what I see. However I hope these people found some joy in this seemingly miserable time called life .
Wow!
Exactly!!
It was not as miserable as your words try to depict it. These people took pleasure in the very simple things of life such as food, friendships, alcohol, conversations, adventures, gossip etc. they lived from day to day and were grateful for their community. People are as miserable, lonely and mentally ill as ever today despite all the technology and material affluence. Don't for one second think everyone you see in this picture was miserable all the time. That's just arrogance and ignorance.
@@MelvinJ64
That's even a better way of looking at it!
Well said!
Thank you!
well restored and colorized pics. we tend to forget that the same living conditions prevail in most countries för the poorest percentage, be it 10% or 1%
BEST IN RWG. BLACK" N' WHITE! THESE COLOURS ARE WRONG! MY GREAT GRANNY WAS THERE! THE COLOURS' ARE NOT CORRECT. SHE LIVED IT
Thank you - and yes, point well taken.
Wow.
Great video, hilarious comments.
My Grandfather came over from Lithuania, which was part of Russia at 19 in 1909 thru Ellis Island, very little $$$, became a peddler, subsequently opened a very successful retail establishment l. - Jacob Sieve
Thank you for this video. History is not always glamorous or comforting but it is something we need to revisit. Sometimes it can be food for thought and reflection. I am grateful that I have food and a safe and warm, clean place to sleep. I don't take it for granted. *Anyone* can end up in in dire circumstances. Anyone could be displaced, even if they think it will never happen to them. I think that is why I don't judge or belittle the homeless. Sure many are addicts or mentally ill, but there are other reasons. We have a son who is an addict. He does good for awhile but then does drugs again. He is in rehab right now. He hasn't had to live on the street, but lived in his car for a couple of months. He does work and has a job. I hope he doesn't end up on the street. I think his car just was repossessed. We aren't going to enable him anymore.
Hi Sheila - Thank you for watching my video and for taking the time to add your comments - you make very good points. I'm sorry to hear about your son's situation, and I wish him the best in his recovery.
Look around the world and you will still find the exact same thing! Nothing new has changed for centuries!
People in my city are renting out a bed in a kitchen for $350 a month. The housing shortage is that bad.
I can't imagine what it was like with all the mice, rats and roaches in places like that.
Unfortunately, slums still exist today. And there are abused children who live in them. They are just well hidden.
What sad pictures😢
The photo of the three passed out boys and their keg really takes be back to my childhood.
Whats changed? The location, no tenements for people. Just homelessness
don't like the zooming in after a picture pops up. I really would just like to look at the photo
Thanks for taking the time to mention this!
The poor sweet kids sleeping in the street .omg
Read the book, "The Gangs of New York." It goes into explicit--HORRIFYING detail on the accounts of the 'Five Points' neighborhood.
Sería genial que la traducción fuera en español.
Gracias y un saludo.
Looks like the same thing today in same places in new York. 😪
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Thank you!
New York 1880s slums look like modern day slums of Philippines and India.
Shamefully, New York is even more foul and hopeless today. Lord have mercy...
This is sad but it's going to be the new reality with all the drugs being legalized. This is going to be the normal again. Sad, sad, sad
Hart Island cemetery probably
1888 was one of the FIRST YEARS of ITALIANS COMING ON OVER!!! And 64 YEARS LATER in 1952 MOST ITALIANS were buying PRIVATE SUBURBAN HOMES and why not?? For $499.00 DOWN and $250.00 MONTHLY PAYMENTS the HOUSING/REAL ESTATE MARKET made it VERY EASY IN A WAY for the NEW SUBURBANITES to OWN A HOME as THOUSANDS OF HOMES were being constructed!!!! And with that $600.00 CONSTRUCTION JOB DAD could afford that MODEST AT TIME HOME PRICE and STILL buy a NEW $1,700.00 CAR or a USED $650.00 7 year old CAR that ran for ANOTHER 8 YEARS!!! The HOUSING PLANNERS figured it all out as the FLIGHT OUT of TENEMENTS & BROWNSTONES caused by CITY HOUSING PROJECTS tearing down 40 city blocks AT THE SAME TIME came in!!!!! And not one LAWYER helped out the DISRUPTED & REMOVED FAMILYS tru IMMINANT DOMAINE (sounds like a HIGH CLASS RESTAURANT TITLE) POLICYS☆☆☆☆
Dejavu!
The good thing is that by 1930 EVERYBODY in New York had their own flush toilet unlike other cities which is pretty REMARKABLE progress!!!
@History Lounge==Thanks !!!This photo session is just like the way its done TODAY== only show the """chosen & selected""" photos to fit the category in question=this film shows a few RUN DOWN & SORT OF CRAMPPPED UP LIVING SPACES but not whats known as BEAUTIFUL AREAS of OLD MANHATTAN in early 1900,s/BROADWAY MANHATTAN shops have postcards TODAY showing ALL BEAUTIFUL LANDMARKS & AREAS of MANHATTAN with the SAME OLD PLACES== STATUE OF LIBERTY*LINCOLN CENTER*RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL*EMPIRE & CHRYSLER BUILDINGS*TAVERN ON THE GREEN* but rarley NEVER anyplace (here we go again) ABOVE 96 street except a CHURCH CATHEDRAL or GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE!!!! But thanks for the photos here!!!!
Muito cruel saber q pobre sempre foi relegado ao pior! Por mais q trabalhe, lute, qqr situação adversa o força à voltar ao lixo e acaba se acostumando pq uma vida de economias ñ garante dignidade a um trabalhador, sempre explorado pelo empregador inescrupuloso!
E os governantes enxergam neles, uma fonte garantida de votos, basta algumas promessas...
Parece q é assim no mundo todo, desde sempre, estou errado?
I guess it was better than back in the old country. These folks continued to tell their families back in Europe to sail for America . .
GO WEST !! 🤠
Have you seen san Francisco and Seattle now.
The same all over Britain in those days. America still has districts living in old ages squalor. 😮
Sadly, nothing has changed.
Actually, today, the latest immigrants, I mean illegals, I mean asylum seekers, I mean illegal asylum seekers...I mean....they get free 4 and 5 star hotel accommodations or at least schools. Oh, and they all get pre-paid cards. Apparently full on squatter's rights to boot!
Unregulated capitalism
Anything radicalized runs counter to its intended goals.
@@fredrickmarsiello4395 Agreed
Poor people
TODAY, THE MANY' MORE HOMELESS' HAVE WAY WORSE.
Give me a break!@@captainamericaamerica8090
So sad!!
If you photoshopped cell phones into all the people hand sewing, it would be just like today.😊
This is brutal man. Mankind was not intended to live like this. We were made in the image of God.
I guess it was better than back in the old country. These folks continued to tell their families back in Europe to sail for America...
A mention of LAZURAS in comments here and think about it==not TOO MUCH HEALTH CARE for these newly arrived immigrants in the photos here but that LAZURAS guy did better than the early 1900 people or of us 2024 people WITH healthcare== LAZURAS ROSE FROM THE DEAD with NO HEALTH CARE!!!!! Pretty remarkable feat!!!
Maybe it was better than where they came from...why else would they have journeyed so far...no option...emigrate or be driven into starvation
Why do the poorest have the most kids?
Sex is their only pleasure
Terrible poor baby 😢😢
😮 misery and poverty...
Where
Nothing like that in today’s society
Oh the slums are still here. Just hidden in homes. Children are horrificly abused and purposely malnourished living in extremely filthy environments. Many are ignored, sleep on floors, don't get baths, etc.
Back then at least most parents loved their kids even if times were very dire and they were dirt poor. Generally they were not doing things on purpose to hurt their children like the sickos today.
@@n.b1434
Thank you!
Absolutely well spoken!!
I wish it wasn't real in our world, but sadly, it is.
Seen San Francisco lately???
@@jetsons101
Yep!
The homeless there are worse than animals, disgusting!!
They’ll be talking about Los Angeles and SF like this 100 years from now. Hopefully cleaned up by then
Over time as society changed, these people, especially the kids, would have done better.
No it hasnt.
i think i saw me there lol
The photoed can't show the treibblesmell horse dung that were left where they died sewage lying in the streets
Minuto 4:03. El colchón es mugroso, a minutos de la putrefacción. Dios mío, qué infierno de vida, trabajando y viviendo para morir entre la cochambre.
Ala... Y como sabes todo eso acerca de ese colchon?
If they tore down all the tenements which was a good thing, and built parks , where did the hundreds of families go? I know about the tenements but where did the families end up ? I’ll dig a bit on my own tho it became a thought whilst watching this. Whilst.
I was wondering the same thing.
Looks a lot better than it is now and I am sure it was a lot safer.People WORKING,not doing drugs.
what? crime, unemployment, and opium were all HUGE problems there in that era.
You did have study history in school, right? Desperation is a dangerous thing. Drugs don't always have to be the😢 root cause. A lot safer? Perhaps people were more ruthless. Folks stugged to get enough to eat for their families. Entire families lived in those dire conditions. I don't have a specific book for you to to read, but maybe some here, do. It might be interesting to know about what people have gone through in the past. Life has
has never been a safe. Did you look at the pictures in the video? Do you really feel that life looked a lot better back then? I think the pictures were sad and heartbreaking.
What makes you think these photos show misery and despair? Graffiti and trash everywhere and people with blue and pink hair and people in public dressed n their pajamas are signs of despair, none of which are seen in these photos.
Still looks better than Baltimore today
This is America. We get a lot of poor people migrating. …. And this is what the poor could afford.
Very interesting video! We still have some of the same problems, unfortunately
those tenements are nicer than living in a tent on a street in modern times.Also better than some 3rd world shacks.
If they survived to today they'd be worth millions.
For those who complain about everything, would you rather go back to 1875??
Reparations
Don't like the color work on these photos. Almost looks like that AI crap. Too many distortions and over sharpened faces. Bleh.
Billy the Kid was born at The Five Points
Billy's mother & fatherl(?) went to Kansas
Catherine moved on to Arizona. Took in washing. Died from tuberculosis while Billy was only 10. Billy needed food for his little brother and he. He stole some
from the laundry, sold it. Bought food. Got a job with an Englishman herding cattle to Chicago. But a wrestter shot the Englishman & all heck broke losem
My how economic Overlord manipulators yearn for the return of days depicted in this video.
Sigh..Why must Nyc forever be tied to slums, danger and misery? Out of all the topics in the world In 2024 and this is what you still chose to show on a channel? This is why so many slow people still believe cities are bad, especially New York, as if this is the only place in the entire world that had people living in poverty.
There are ghettos/slums in Italy, England, China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico as well as other countries..why people focus on this city’s past more than anywhere else makes for a better topic 🧐
Let the other countries make there own videos, the reason new york, it's called VOTERS
Remember, the majority of the people who diss big cities (live in rural communities ). They have been groomed since 2016 to fear everything ~
Looks a lot like what bidens doing to America today.....
much worse now. heroes like Dan Penny who Stop Criminals are charged as murderers!
@@lamper2 Trump 2024..............
When the people fear the government, there is TYRANNY;
When the government fears the people there is LIBERTY.
@@jetsons101trump does love the uneducated! 😂
"**STOP😦😦✋🔞❗ADDING COLOURS! THEY ARE NOT THE RIGHT REAL COLOURS. MY GREAT GRANNY TOLD US! SHE WAS THERE ! IN THAT TIME FRAME.
Now this is the norm. Thank you democrats. Also I noticed alot of families with multiple kids that's the main reason people are poor.. living above means. This includes reproducing too
and there is no excuse living in filth. My family was poor, but our home was spotless as well as the outside.
Sex was their only entertainment
on the way ... by biden
No, by people like you who complain but do not take direct action by volunteering to help out in current hard hit neighborhoods.
@@stischer47 luckily i don't live in america, although america is working on getting to the same point
More getting benefits than paying in. Birth rate dropping. Dem ruined cities