New York Tenements were a very disturbing place to live. The picture above shows the back view of one tenement looking on to other tenements around it. The clothing lines are all over the place and they give the entire image a very cluttered feeling. The houses are all made from wood which looks old and rotten. The roofs are just pilled wood. Winter must have been very hard because they did not even have fire places. Not everything in the big cities of America was luxurious, and the New York Tenements are a perfect example of that. These types of housing were cheap and so new immigrants were drawn to them. It took a long time for these types of buildings to stop being used.
Monday, November 18, 2013
New York City Tenements UPDATED POST
New York Tenements were a very disturbing place to live. The picture above shows the back view of one tenement looking on to other tenements around it. The clothing lines are all over the place and they give the entire image a very cluttered feeling. The houses are all made from wood which looks old and rotten. The roofs are just pilled wood. Winter must have been very hard because they did not even have fire places. Not everything in the big cities of America was luxurious, and the New York Tenements are a perfect example of that. These types of housing were cheap and so new immigrants were drawn to them. It took a long time for these types of buildings to stop being used.
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