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By Emely Curvelo The Lower east side Hester Street Lower East Side 1902 The Lower East Side was Jewish world Everything was Jewishowned or Jewishrun A difficult place to live ID: 743200

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Tenement life in The lower east side

By: Emely CurveloSlide2

The Lower east side

Hester Street, Lower East Side 1902.

The

Lower East

Side was

Jewish

world.

Everything was Jewish-owned or Jewish-run.

A difficult place to live:

Most crowded neighborhood – By the 1900 it had more

than 700 people per

acre, making

it the most crowded neighborhood on the planet.Slide3

THE RISE OF TENEMENT HOUSING

Tenements in the Lower East Side were being built specifically for immigrants.

By

1900, more than 80,000 tenements had been built in New York City. They housed a population of 2.3 million people, a full two-thirds of the city's total population of around 3.4 million

.

http://www.history.com/topics/tenementsSlide4

What is a tenement?

A tenement is

any rented or leased dwelling that housed more than three independent families

.

Typical tenement building:

Five to six stories high.

4 apartments in each floor.

Occupy 90 percent of their lot.

Served

as

factories: A place for

women and children to raise enough money to live

How The Other Half Lives By Jacob A. Riis.Slide5

other facts…

New

York City tenements were generally of two types:

1. Small

houses

– 3 or 4

floors that may have originally been one family and were converted into three or four family

dwellings.

2. Larger buildings – constructed as tenements that were typically 5 to 6 floors with four families to a floor.

What made a tenement a "tenement" was the location and how recently the immigrants had arrived. Similar size apartments in better neighborhoods were called "flats“.Slide6

Life in the Tenements

 

Most tenements

contained the dirty horrible living conditions with high death rates

Early tenements had very dark hallways as lighting was only from a sky light and/or glass transoms in apartment doors

L

ife in the tenements was

hard:

1. Heating

and cooking were done by

wood

or coal burning stoves

.

2. Water was obtained outside –frozen in the winter. (heated on stove for bathing and washing dishes).

3. Privy was in the back yard. Slide7

The Tenements - Interiors

Crowded

condition are acerbated by the need to hang laundry up to dry indoors.

Lack of space – Not enough furniture.

No windows – Lack of fresh air and light.

Multiple generations lived together. Slide8

Tenements - Exteriors

Plan

of the

Chrystie

Street School and neighborhood shows the form of the tenement buildings.

Lots were 100ft deep by 25ft wide.

Drank grey area: Buildings

Light area: Yards

People sleeping in roof tops during the summer. Slide9

HARD TIMES - RENT DAY

Rent:

2 Rooms (In attic): $3-5 per month.

3 Rooms (Kitchen and 2 bedrooms): $6-12 per month.

4 Rooms: $12-16 per month

People worked in sweatshops or cigar making factories in order to pay the rent.

Legal working hours: 10

There was no workman's compensation. If the breadwinner was hurt, he (or she) would be out of work.

They would be kicked out of their homes if they did not pay the rent. Slide10

Tenements Improvements

Housing laws improved.

By 1890’s new tenement buildings were being constructed.

Rent was still $6 to $13 per month.