Tenement Life 1860-1910

[justrosie1]

thank you,

[glmike523]

Yeah, the good old days!

[MarthaStout0202]

This makes me appreciate my house and the era in which I live. I'm sure this took quite a while to make! Thanks for uploading it!

[nanse484]

People with out God, When you get close to God, and are saved through the blood of Christ, God supplies all your needs

[manzione2009]

Powerful,very very powerful..and very very well done....it should make people today appreciate what they have.....THANKS for posting

[friedchicken892]

whats the song calledd

[at7000]

Yes, these conditions were terrible. But their housing in Europe was probably worse.

[Atelana]

These pictures are incredible and awesome, we can imagine the way of life of those people. A tribute to the Americans' ancestry.

I'm French an I like too pictures of this century, in the poor suburbs of Paris, they were the same slums that in NYC. Thanks to post it.

[writingsinthesky]

@paulinotou While the idea that these people will multiply into the population we know today is natural - That did not occur. These people survived and bred only to be killed off in world war one, world war two and korean and vietnam wars. The population we know today is largely a new class of people - people from all over the world, and from our unchecked border with Mexico. And the result of our treatment of blacks.

[Ten7d5]

@writingsinthesky Your statement may be true concerning new immigrants and urban areas. But how can you say such a thing when in WWII (most casualties out of all), our casualty rate was only three tenths of one percent of the entire U.S. population? The majority of the U.S. population is descended from european immigrants that arrived pre-1900. If your statement were true then the U.S. would be less than 10 percent white as MOST immigrants after 1950 were hispanic and asian.

[zeelove8]

amazin footage at the end & the pics wow! i love it, the music set the mood very powerful stuff excellent vid! great post!*)

[LaCosaNostra132]

Its amazing this is during the wild west era. lol its no wonder billy the kids family left NYC when they had the chance. That place sucked ass back then. Although with the technology of this time I cant imagine the heat of new mexico back in the 1870's/1880's

[yerk3]

@LaCosaNostra132 Back then people built houses with heat in mind, like having transoms above the doors and plenty of windows that could open. Also without global warming it wasn't quite as hot.

[Ten7d5]

@yerk3 The all-time record high in NYC was set in 1925 at 108 degrees. It has since never been that hot here.

[Ten7d5]

@yerk3 The Tenement law of 1879 required that buildings have a small rear yard and a few shafts in between attached buildings for light and air, creating the "dumbbell" style tenement. This law only changed the rules for future tenements being built, there still remained a large portion where there were several apartments between the front & rear of the building with no light or fresh air.

[yerk3]

@Ten7d5 I was responding to LaCosaNostra132's comment about Billy the Kid moving to New Mexico and how people out there dealt with the heat before air conditioning, I was talking about buildings built out in hot regions of the Southwest, not New York tenement buildings. Sorry for the confusion.

[NeverBeBored08]

I wonder, do some of these tenements still exist? Did they preserve some of the buildings for historical references?

[Ten7d5]

@NeverBeBored08 The worst of them were razed, but the average 3 to 5 story NYC "tenement" apt houses are still around, they're just not overcrowded and dank because of current laws. Check out the NYC tenement museum on Orchard street.

[yerk3]

@Ten7d5 Plus a lot of them are probably gentrified loft apartments now.

[Cyallaire]

@Ten7d5 The image you have at 7:40 with a huge heap of planks in a corner of the room with a wood burning stove, people stretched out on the floor and two on a table apparently, did you see any caption for that? Only one appears to have a blanket. Did people go foraging around for scraps of wood to haul up to their apartments to burn? Did someone come down the street selling buckets of coal to the tenement dwellers?

[Ten7d5]

@Cyallaire I don't remember seeing a caption but it's from the NYC Tenement dept archives. Wood and coal were readily available since everyone had a pot-belly stove like you see there, and poorer people probably gathered whatever they could find. Nicer buildings had coal chutes in the sidewalk that led to the cellar. A wagon would come by and the coal man would shovel it right down the chute.

[Cyallaire]

@Ten7d5 Thank you for the reply. I had wrongly guessed that was some sort of sanitation worker at 1:33. My mother grew up in St. Louis and remembers when every place was heated by coal and the industries ran on coal, and she said if you had a white blouse on, it would turn gray with airborne coal dust before you finished walking 2 blocks. Blocks of ice and coal were delivered to homes/apts. when my mom was a kid. My grandpa's St. Louis neighborhood were paved with bricks back in 1964.

[Ten7d5]

@Cyallaire The photo at 1:33 is a coal delivery man with his wagon

[CuteCatFaith]

@NeverBeBored08 You might enjoy my video on SLOBOMOTION, "Girl Pack" with intended music. It was filmed in 1979 in and around 256 East Tenth Street, NYC, including the roof, hallway, entrance and all.

[kimsuratos]

i luv the look on 1800! :)

[copperjones1915]

It back old memories

[paulinotou]

the slums of new york back than were more dense than calcutta today

[Ten7d5]

@paulinotou Correct, Orchard Street between Broome and Delancey in the 1900 census was the most populated square block on the entire planet!

[paulinotou]

@Ten7d5 im not sure about the streets in new york, ive only been their once for like 4 hours but its pretty interesting to think that a good percentage of americans have roots in the immigrants who lived in the rough streets of new york. the guys in this vid will multiply into the population we know today.

[Gigilaughs]

I have heard it said that more people need to move into cities and leave the majority of the land wild in order to conserve the planet. While I am for doing what we can to protect the land that gives so much to us it is pictures like these that come to mind. These people were poor, had no way to produce their own food and were stacked on top of each other in unsanitary slums. They went through hell just to survive every day. I feel for people around the world who still live in those conditions.

[Ten7d5]

@Gigilaughs That's a pretty "radical" idea, never heard that one before. Considering the U.S. Population when these photos were taken was about 50million and is now today 310million, I wonder what kind of social breakdown and misery there would be.

[Restfulduchess]

excellent job

[The1NAUTILUSMAN]

That's a hard life!!

[IamHelenKeller]

Thanks for the fascinating video.....

Great music and wonderful photos.!

Actually I think parts of N.Y.C. are reverting back to Slums like the ones pictured here,...... maybe worse.

Nice video.

Very Well Done! :)

[jackielle]

i love the music in this piece-

[kevmo94]

im studying this in history right now so it was very interesting, but I'm more curious about the SONG you used now. What's it's title?

[petitechatnoir]

There are many many people all over the world, east and west, who STILL live like this, to our shame. The only difference is the clothes.

[vacuumtube56]

@BOSTONBUCK

So true !

[nichtdhimmi]

I enjoyed this!

[mgrb530]

great video- amazing to think that immigrants came to get a better life.... thanks for your hard work! will share with my students.

[BOSTONBUCK]

AND THEY THINK ITS BAD 2DAY

[martydee69]

@BOSTONBUCK its worse today just look at statistics brother

[fishsama999]

@martydee69

I want to know what statistics you're looking at. Poverty around the turn of the 1900's in the US was at 50%, and that fell by the eve of the Great Depression to 20%. At the moment, we're at a 14.9% Poverty rate.

I don't think that supports your statement.

[Dan4CW]

I do a bit about statistics, the poverty rate in the year 1900 ( using the year 1900 as the basis point of 100 ) was 90 %, 1930: 50 %, 1960: 25%,

[wenderm97]

Such a great video! Thanks!