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It's hard to imagine Brooklyn Bridge not being there. However prior to 1869, there was no bridge connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn. Building starting that year and the bridge was opened for use in 1883, becoming at the time, the world's longest suspension bridge. To quell fears that the bridge was not stable enough, the following year, P. T. Barnum...
New York's bays and harbors were once home to about half the world's oyster population. Yet due to over-harvesting, the growth of Manhattan and poor waste management, the oyster population has been massively depleted. In the 1800s, oyster carts and taverns filled the city, like modern day hot dog vendors. New York's oysters were nutritious, tasty a...
Manhattan's Five Points, named after the intersection, was a notorious area of 19th century NYC. At the time, it was considered rife with poverty, crime, murder, unemployment and disease. It was also a magnet for the poorer population, including Irish immigrants and emancipated Black people, when the middle class left the area after the Collect Pon...
One of the earliest adopters of flash photography, Danish-American journalist Jacob Riis is credited with significantly helping social reform in New York due to his photography of impoverished people. Along with humanitarian Lawrence Veiller, his photography of slums helped the implementation of "model tenements" (apartment buildings). A number of ...
The first New York school established by European settlers opened in the 1630s. Two and a half centuries later, schools were overloaded after a compulsory attendance law for the primary grades was enacted in 1874. Also in the 19th century, a Catholic parochial school system was introduced as an alternative to state education. It wasn't until a cent...
Tenement sweatshops were rife in the 1800s, as recent immigrants clamoured for work, resulting in long-hours and low-pay being the status quo. While many people succumbed to exhaustion and malnutrition, other contractors became organisers of their fellow immigrants and set up their own garment shops.
In the late 19th century, public baths became integral for tenement dwellers, for whom access to clean running water was uncommon. Temporary public baths began to spring up after 1870, with multiple baths being installed in 1888 insisting on a 20 minute time limit for users. Not only did the baths allow for higher levels of cleanliness and relief i...
Hell's Kitchen, aka Clinton, in Manhattan's Midtown may be more gentrified nowadays, but it was in the 1800s when its gritty reputation earned the district its name. It is thought Davy Crockett first used the phrase in reference to Five Points in 1835, saying: "In my part of the country, when you meet an Irishman, you find a first-rate gentleman; b...
In the early 19th century, Broadway and the former Bowery Road—now Fourth Avenue—came together to create an historic intersection, Union Square. The area became filled with affluent real estate and hotels, while in the 1870s The Rialto became New York City's first commercial theater district. Also in this century, the famous statues of George Washi...
Commissioned by Joseph Pulitzer and designed by George B. Post in the Renaissance Revival style, the New York World Building—also known as the Pulitzer Building—was completed in 1890. It served as the headquarters for the New York Worldnewspaper, in an area of the Civic Center that came to be known as Newspaper Row. At 350ft, the building was New Y...
Early photo from the Brooklyn Bridge (1881) from $19.99. The 1881 photograph of Downtown Manhattan from the under-construction Brooklyn Bridge shows a drastically different Manhattan skyline than the one that would emerge within the next 20 years.
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