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Life on the Lower East Side was bustling. Immigrants from many European countries had come to make a better life for themselves and their families in the United

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017! Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertainin

Introduces the tenement housing provided for immigrants in cities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and describes immigrant life in the tenements

I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower, writes Andrew S. Dolkart. Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, bu

This book examines "new tenements"—dense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since the 1970s