A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890.Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of ...
LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Orchard Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side is where many Italian and German immigrants lived in tenements in the 1860s. "A lot of institutions have forgotten or ...
Before it became a cultural landmark, Chinatown was built on New York’s most notorious slum. This documentary uncovers its history of crime, poverty, and transformation. Blast at a Tennessee ...
President Trump on Monday announced plans to use the National Guard to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C. Mr. Trump also spoke about the homeless, and suggested New York City could be next. "We ...
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In December, the Tenement Museum in New York City opened its latest exhibit, “A Union of Hope: 1869”. The exhibit is a carefully curated recreation of Joseph and Rachel Moore’s apartment in SoHo, that ...
Located at 97 and 103 Orchard St. in Manhattan, the Tenement Museum is devoted to telling the stories of 19th and 20th-century immigrants who inhabited the building, allowing visitors to take a step ...
Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, ...