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“In New York City, you have slums, but they’re not visible,” Basar Girit, a partner at SITU Studio, tells Co.Design. “I think we wanted to bring that to people’s attention,” he says.
One immigrant photographer captured what it was like for New York’s poor during this time, and his images remain arresting today. The Danish-born carpenter Jacob Riis (1849-1914) migrated to the ...
No man in the United States has had more to do with public works than ROBERT MOSES. He has been head of the state park system of New York since 1924, park commissioner of New York City and ...
In this gallery, we bring you a glimpse of what life in a New York City tenement looked like. Click on. You may also like: In the 19th century, thousands of people emigrated to the US. In New York ...
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 2023-03-24T15:40:31Z ...
A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly ...
Despite his own privileged path to power, or perhaps because of it, the son of a Columbia University professor and a movie ...
Since 1927 eleven housing projects around New York City have been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the ...
In 1924, Smith, the popular, cigar-chomping product of New York City's immigrant slums, began appointing the Yale- and Oxford-educated Moses to commissions that enabled him to start accumulating ...
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 ...