The Lower East Side, 1880-1920
With
the expansion of industry and population through
foreign migration in the second half of the
nineteenth century, the distance between New York
City's social classes grew sharper and more defined
spatially as well as by most socioeconomic measures.
The
rise of an industrial class-structured society
generated a specific urban form - the ghetto - in
which the working classes were geographically
segregated from other classes and their residences
were increasingly separated from their workplaces.
Within
the framework of spatial segregation, the Lower East
Side developed its own distinctively working-class
housing economy, community building, repertoires of
social resistance and political intervention.
Links
(click
to follow)
The Lower East Side: A Gateway to America.
View photographs of New York
City from the Byron Company,1892-1942.
Here is some Lower East Side immigration
information.
Observations of life in Lower Manhattan at
the turn of the century.
General photos (some of the Lower East Side)
from the turn of the century.
