Survival in New York's brutal FIVE POINTS Slum (The Bend on Mulberry Street)

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Five Points slum in 1800s New York was a dangerous maze of criminal alleys and their gangs in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Italian inhabitants of The Bend, Mulberry Street, suffered terribly overcrowded and squalid living conditions in its tenements. This is the story of The Bend and its alleys told by Jacob Riis, an investigative reporter who exposed previously dark and hidden corners of the city in newspapers and made a significant contribution to improvement in housing for the poor.
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@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

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@bustedupgrunt1177 Жыл бұрын

Where Irish and Italian were coddled, clearly living in the lap of white privilege luxury back then while poor Black neighbors suffered. Reparations due.

@jamesvinch2484 11 ай бұрын

Or ny, already is

@shelbeepollino6025 11 ай бұрын

Do you know the name of the painting at 2:06, the woman holding onto the two girls and talking to the man?

@MrsCraigJrPhiladelphia 9 ай бұрын

THANK YOU SIR

@frankgraham1996 9 ай бұрын

And now NYC is returning to become the same filled with illegal immigrants.

@japanvintagecamera8869 3 ай бұрын

The Five Points was a stepping stone to better lives in other parts of America. The first arrivals had it the worst, their kids and grandkids were better off. My grandfather was one of 12 children, all of whom were sent to work in factories from the age of 7, not to mention the work of his father. The factory paid them, provided one meal per day, and had classes which taught the kids to read, write, and do basic math. The combined labor of the entire family allowed them to buy a farm in Pennsylvania, and their farm prospered. It still exists today. My grandfather, one of the youngest, hated farm life, and ran away from home at 14 to enlist in the US Army as a Cavalryman (almost half of the old Cavalry was Irish). The Army knew he wasn't old enough, but couldn't prove it, so they put him through hell to scare him off, but he toughed it out, becoming a horse soldier at the ripe age of 15. The people of those days were a made of sterner stuff than today.

@danaleanne38 Ай бұрын

Yes, and they were Irish

@user-ss8iy2to6t Ай бұрын

@@danaleanne38 my grandfather went to Penn too as a coal miner and left as a boxer

@gerardfenn3988 21 күн бұрын

@@danaleanne38 Yes and Scottish but both could be the same. I'm a baby boomer from the old neighborhood. Clinton Hill in Brooklyn. You never forget your roots if your from NYC.

@poundsign9731 11 ай бұрын

I love how KZfaq has more interesting stuff than I can find on the actual history channel

@AshleySpeaks09 7 ай бұрын

This!

@user-ff4fu8bb3y 5 ай бұрын

Or any TV subscription app 👌👌 I watch nothing but KZfaq and I've never ever not once struggled to find something new to watch 🤗🤗

@user-zo5um2vu1z Ай бұрын

@@user-ff4fu8bb3yI don't watch the big box anymore.... KZfaq is the TV of the poor,disposessed and the underclass....if it wasn't for this they wouldn't have ANY MEDIA .at all ...long may it continue....independent information......

@user-gb7oz8hf6v 6 ай бұрын

I live in the lower east side and I'm 1 of probably 10 Irish people who still live in the neighborhood. My family came to NYC during the famine and never left.

@wordcel 3 ай бұрын

Wow, your family has been in the lower east side the entire time?

@DanORiley 3 ай бұрын

I guess I was lucky my Irish famine ancestors came thru Canada and farming before crossing the river to Detroit 1890s and Grand Rapids MI 1850s set us on a path to Middle Class lifestyle! It was easier to emigrate to Canada as it at the time was part of British Commonwealth!

@jakedefenbaugh603 3 ай бұрын

That’s pretty cool

@tula1433 2 ай бұрын

That’s amazing. Hopefully your property value has skyrocketed!

@AyeAye-Ron 2 ай бұрын

You never left LES/Alphabet city?!

@sunrayrosin7181 11 ай бұрын

My Grandparents and mother and her siblings all lived in the Lower East side. My Grandfather had a push cart in the Essex Street market up unto the 1970’s. I am a product of those dirty streets and Mulberry Street is always special to me.

@sunrayrosin7181 11 ай бұрын

I always stay humble because I respect my roots on those immigrant ships, sweat shops and people who would not quit. Hard work! When my Grandfather finally died, he had over 3 million in investments and savings. He never gambled and he supported his children and loved his grandchildren and great grandchildren. His struggles made me stronger. I work as a plumber because I value the contribution I make more then the money I earn for my service.

@huskymom234 11 ай бұрын

I came from both the Irish and Italian of NYC. That was our home - we worked our way out of it as did all the immigrant groups who came out of the same places.

@yankees29 7 ай бұрын

My family is from the Westside. Hells Kitchen I believe. They had that crazy accent. Toilet and Boil=Terlet and Burl

@j.b.3825 9 ай бұрын

The Mulberry “Bend” still exists. The neighborhood is now part of Chinatown. The tenement buildings on the east side of Mulberry Bend are still there and the west side of the street is now Columbus Park. The park extends south to Worth Street, encompassing the former Five Points intersection.

@dondamon4669 7 ай бұрын

No it's not!

@springsummerwinterorfall 7 ай бұрын

I love the slums people are real they don’t play any games

@springsummerwinterorfall 7 ай бұрын

@@dondamon4669 get a life

@fleadoggreen9062 4 ай бұрын

@@springsummerwinterorfall I hear it’s cheap rent ? You should move there and marry someone from there 😊

@kathleenferguson3296 3 ай бұрын

@@fleadoggreen9062 No, it's not. Some of the most expensive real estate in the City. Now.

@leejones8977 11 ай бұрын

I'm forever fascinated with NYC.

@robertturcotte1616 Жыл бұрын

It's so tragic that these poor people came to America for a better life and landed up living in the same conditions they left or worse...

@Gecko.... Жыл бұрын

For a time but they quickly moved up, to be replaced by the next crop of immigrants. That's how America works, the latest immigrants are on the bottom. First the Irish and Germans, then the Italians and Jews, now the south americans.

@davidsigalow7349 Жыл бұрын

It was STILL better than starving during a potato famine or working as a sharecropping peasant. At least, your children could get some public education and have a chance at something better.

@Jamestele1 Жыл бұрын

Thankfully their kids grew up and served in the Military and became fully American, if they actually survived WWI and/or WWII. God bless our ancestors, and may they RIP

@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Жыл бұрын

@@user-yp7rn6tb2t Not all of them, but a long shot. I knew many who arrived during this time. My own mother's parents came that way. What people don't know and this video does not cover is that there was a placement program and eventually people found places to go and start up a life. They had to find work for them, first. But many cities' factories were filled in this way. My grandfather was a tailor and ran his own shop in upper Pennsylvania. They had a good life and eight children. Several of them became wealthy. One became a multimillionaire by the 1960s - legally.

@timhallas4275 Жыл бұрын

they made it what it was, by coming here with no education, no skills and poor morals....then they bred like rats.

@mickeyfeatherstone7738 11 ай бұрын

My Grandfather and uncle used to live in Manhattan in the 1920s. They still had tents in Central Park.

@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 4 ай бұрын

They have tents in Central Park now, and on the sidewalks.

@georgestreicher252 6 ай бұрын

Now one of the better neighborhoods in NYC. Slept overnight in my father's shop on Baxter Street in the 1960's. Couldn't get any sleep as a drunk Italian neighbor practiced his opera singing no doubt fantasizing, he was Caruso. One of the reasons the subway system was built was to reduce the congestion in lower Manhattan.

@jjwhy321y3 9 ай бұрын

How bad were conditions in other countries, when someone says 'pack ur bags kids, we're moving to blood alley!'

@MELANIE2571 11 ай бұрын

Just discovered you. Wow. What an absolute treat. Fantastic narration ,so poetic and descriptive . The old photos are still so clear after over 100 years and portray the plight of these people so poignantly. So glad I found you.

@FactFeast 11 ай бұрын

Thank you and welcome to the channel! You will find more videos like this on the channel page.

@Shineon83 Жыл бұрын

Bless the souls of the poor who once lived in the slums of NYC-most were decent people who, wanting to provide for their families, took their courage in hand-and their life savings-and immigrated across the ocean to a totally alien world…. Driven by The Great Irish Potato Famine, the nonstop German wars & uprisings for unity, and by a host of other upheavals, most didn’t speak the language, and took any job(s) they could find-while living in the only places they could afford (and as The Gilded Age swanned along, they died by the thousands - from all of the diseases associated with poverty, squalor & hopelessness: Cholera, Yellow Fever & Tuberculosis)…..Have mercy upon them.

@user-zn6qh8ur8b 5 ай бұрын

*emigrated Not immigrated In the context you wrote

@teenac718 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely true. Should be taught at schools.

@benefitsconsultingservices8718 8 ай бұрын

I was born and raised on the Lower East side of NY. My family lived there in the 40s We lived there until 1977. It was then and still is A rough neighborhood. In order to survive you HAD to be a good fighter or else!!! I grew up with a group of guys who were the Bowery boys. We all did things we won’t do now however, back then we did what we had to do.

@yankees29 7 ай бұрын

My first experience with cocaine was on the LES. Smh

@Jamestele1 Жыл бұрын

I'm grateful that my Victorian era Irish and Scottish ancestors went West to farm. The were hungry, but they made a good life. The Potato Famine was a senseless and unnecessary event, cause by selfish greed. The Italians were initially "stuck" in the cities, but like smart immigrants do, they pooled together into ethnic neighborhoods or rural "Trachts" and helped each other: Germans did it, Irish, Japanese, Arab, until they became "accepted" into mainstream culture or whatever.

@chrisper7527 Жыл бұрын

Lol@“Accepted”. Isn’t it wonderful to be “accepted” where you are given a pass to flourish? Too bad for the African Americans.😒

@653j521 Жыл бұрын

@@chrisper7527 If I went to their land, I would be happy to be accepted. But I don't have a chip on my shoulder. This is not at all the situation for African Americans. No comparison.

@joejones9520 11 ай бұрын

@@chrisper7527 it's always been their poor behavior that holds them back or that inspires discrimination, today with media it's so easy to see what the problem is, everyday same thing wherever they are in the world and that's even with media covering for them.

@themaskedman221 11 ай бұрын

@@chrisper7527 lol, you're raining on the pity party. These people think it's realistic to waltz into a country with no skills or money and be automatically accepted into the upper classes. In no country on earth has this ever happened to anyone. And yet the descendants of these European immigrants ascended into the middle and upper classes of the US in just a few generations; for some it was even quicker.

@RonFilco.9358 11 ай бұрын

@@chrisper7527what are you 10? Stop your crying already!!

@tiffinyharrington9307 9 ай бұрын

My 3rd great grandfather John Mulrooney stayed at 74 1/2 Mulberry St. when he arrived from Ireland. It’s now part of Chinatown.

@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 4 ай бұрын

Most of NYC is now China town.

@sybil.369 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant indeed, what a terrible hard life those poor people went through....

@Celtopia 6 ай бұрын

For them it was just normality, they had no experience or expectations of anything different....

@boneytony5041 20 күн бұрын

@@CeltopiaMany of them missed their homes, ruined by colonialism.

@probablecauzz7038 Жыл бұрын

I so look forward to your new posts, your stories and your narrative style are always so enjoyable. Thank you for all you put into your channel. Much respect from Maine, US.

@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

It's really nice to hear from a regular viewer and know that the videos are worthwhile. Thank you so much for writing.

@SaraM152 Жыл бұрын

Ck t

@richardjohnston3359 Жыл бұрын

Sounds the same as parts of Victorin London or Glasgow

@patricialong5767 7 ай бұрын

It's definitely difficult hard to picture such conditions as those above, but the photos prove they did exist! Oh, my goodness!

@moondancer4660 Жыл бұрын

I've been watching this channel since the very first episode and I never miss one!!😊

@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

You’re a ⭐️ moondancer. I’m lucky to have your support 😊

@bobbylee2853 8 ай бұрын

This must have been what Rick was talking about when he said “there’s certain parts of NY I wouldn’t advise you invade” to the Germans in Casablanca.

@Javajavajav 5 ай бұрын

The neighborhood was demolished and the park built in 1897 so no, since that movie took place 40 years later...

@wordcel 3 ай бұрын

@@JavajavajavThere were still many slums in Manhattan all the way up to the 1980s/90s. Even today, there are a handful of slums in Manhattan, but they are very small and scattered due to gentrification

@floramew Жыл бұрын

I like the narrative style of all these readings, but something struck me especially about the words "pristine nastiness". In context, it really illustrates the feeling, I think.

@curbyourshi1056 Жыл бұрын

Just edgy old school talk to me. Anyone can form a dichotomy.

@AB-un4io Жыл бұрын

No, there wasn’t anything pristine about it but I think the OP was pointing out the juxtaposition of putting those two words together rather than trying to make any of it sound or seem fanciful. It’s like the term “exquisite pain.” Sounds wrong coming out of the mouth but it describes what some people experience. Maybe not. Have a great day all!

@virginiawilliams9998 8 ай бұрын

My great grandparents left Genoa and arrived in New York in 1884. They lived in a tenement on Baxter Street near Bayard Street for years before moving to Downing Street in the Village and then on to Bay Ridge. Their neighbors on Baxter Street were mostly Genoese who spoke the dialect (which to my ear sounds more like French than Italian) There were still some Irish and Irish-Americans living on lower Baxter in those days. I am told my family often spoke of Baxter Street in fond reminiscences. Thank you for the informative video and evocative photos!

@FactFeast 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story. It’s great to know you found the history and photos so interesting.

@davehughesfarm7983 7 ай бұрын

i bet its hell now too

@mrt601 11 ай бұрын

That was very fascinating well played sir and thank for the entertainment and education

@Conservchick854 11 ай бұрын

Love the pics and old 'moving pictures' snippets. The narrative describes well what many ancestors before us have told us....

@FactFeast 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the presentation! Thank you.

@theobessiris9681 Жыл бұрын

Wow!!! I just found your KZfaq site and subscribed within seconds of seeing your content. I was always fascinated by the Victorian and Edwardian periods and criminal elements of that era. I have seen videos scattered about on various websites but nothing as detailed as yours. Great stuff, and keep those videos coming!!!

@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

Thank you and welcome to the channel! Lots more to come 🙂

@Lonesome__Dove 11 ай бұрын

Theres a great book that details this slum. A john jakes book called the American. Its part of the kent family chronicles. The entire series is a must read.

@user-fo3jd6lb4n Ай бұрын

Read it ,Excellent

@user-jt5xw8jo7b 6 ай бұрын

It's not a slum anymore. I was there a few months ago. It's a busy metropolitan area. Coffee shops, benches, restaurants and you would never know the history if you didn't know it

@Khatoon170 Жыл бұрын

How are you doing sir. Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Honestly with every new video you posted we learn new vocabularies and new information. First of all I looked up for meaning of bandit is armed thief ( in order use ) one who attacks people while they are traveling. Synonyms gangster , outlaw , crook . Bandit roost 59/ 2 mulberry street . In early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis documenting living conditions in New York slums in 1880s . How other half lives studies among tenements of New York . The photography taken in “ bend “ dangerous and poor alley in mulberry street newyork city that no longer exist . Bend was core of city tenement slums known for crime ridden populations of mostly Italian origin . Riis social activism in pursuit of better life conditions for poorest classes of New York where picture was published one of best examples was one of factors that led to demolition of mulberry bend which was later replaced by park . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information. Good luck to you your dearest ones .

@edwinpillay1409 Ай бұрын

Love this video, lived in the LES in the 80s as an immigrant, now in Brooklyn and tried., Love this City.

@curbyourshi1056 Жыл бұрын

16:29, that Shillelagh is almost as big as him, bless his tough heart. ❤

@micknorman2333 6 ай бұрын

What Shillelagh? That's a old double barrel shot gun. Have a look back at it.

@Deeplycloseted435 6 ай бұрын

WOW! These photos are incredible.

@davidsigalow7349 Жыл бұрын

Love these street names: "Can you direct me to 'Bandit's Roost'?" "Well, you go east on 'Ragpickers Row' until you get to 'Dead Goat 🐐 Park'...then make a right on 'Blood Alley' and you can't miss it- just look for some filthy, meanacing tramps in bowler hats carrying clubs."

@vstarcruiser7141 Жыл бұрын

Toooo funeeee!

@KarenKSmith-tm2kp 20 күн бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@debbiesims138 11 ай бұрын

So much wealth in NYC, Vanderbilts, Astors, and instead of helping these people they were building large mansions and throwing expensive parties.

@Dalt21 9 ай бұрын

Nothing has changed honestly

@kayfitzgerald309 9 ай бұрын

Just like today 21st century 😢

@zcl812 6 ай бұрын

Same thing today. Wealth inequality is actually worse now

@JohnMarcovich-nj8wh 8 ай бұрын

I've watched this video 3 times in the last week. I'm fascinated by the videos of life back then. I can't stop watching it. 😂

@FactFeast 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic! Nice to know it’s interesting history.

@whataboutrob442 Жыл бұрын

Love information like this. New subscriber.

@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Welcome to the channel!

@LinTrueCrimeProject 5 ай бұрын

My grandmother's family landed there in 1913 and moved to Brooklyn later. Many families moved thru lower NYC before setting roots.

@docholliday1970 Жыл бұрын

I'm a new subscriber to your Channel 💚 Thanks for sharing !

@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel! Thank you 😊

@nobody6546 11 ай бұрын

🏆. Well Researched, Organized & Presented. Kudos. 👴🏽NoBody🎞️s.

@lastlogicallib 8 ай бұрын

Incredible video. Bravo!

@FactFeast 8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! Glad the history interests you.

@keepitsimple4629 Жыл бұрын

Seeing this reminds me of my neighbors' yards. They can't pick up a thing; their trash piles just grow and grow. To see them on the street they look clean enough, but their properties! I'm waiting to see a commode on somebody's front porch.

@ContactsNfilters Жыл бұрын

I got a commode specifically for yard decor because my neighbors pissed me off with all their shenanigans and loud music starting at around 4 am and going all through the day and until midnight or later. Thankfully they've moved away. I was out there every day sweeping and picking up the trash other people littered until they moved in and then someone called the city on me for growing vegetable plants in buckets. The city was absolutely horrible to deal with and my health has gone downhill majorly so idgaf anymore.

@michaelpatterson9119 Жыл бұрын

So you guys live In newyork right?so nothing has changed.

@vstarcruiser7141 Жыл бұрын

@@ContactsNfilters u r hilarious a commode for yard decide..

@maggiemae7539 8 ай бұрын

In Oklahoma people use toilets in their yards for decoration. And you will see recliners on front porches

@kaylalindblom628 9 ай бұрын

I have heard somewhere that the apartment on the honeymooners was based on Jackie Gleeson's experience as a boy in the early 1900's in a New York city tenement slum apartment.

@Changeyourperception 8 ай бұрын

Yes it's true 👍🏾

@davehughesfarm7983 7 ай бұрын

dang he was a good actor...acting like a southern redneck...

@ieattofu68 8 ай бұрын

Can you imagine all the families in this present age that have inherited wealth from their slumlord ancestors?

@lauragallagher8659 22 күн бұрын

My grandfather and grandmother came from Ireland to the 5 pts in 1905. He got shot in a bar in the 5pts. My dad was born in 1910 and I know life was very hard. Large Irish Catholic family. But he became a teamster ( I remember when the drivers would strike.) We had a large apt and small country home in Conn and my bro and I went to 12 yrs of Catholic School. He lived a good life.

@crazychicSHENA 11 ай бұрын

So horrible The living conditions in their time Five 📌 points NYC really had a notorious rep my great 👵 granny landed in Boston Massachusetts 🚢 she was newly off the boat from county Clare Ireland🇮🇪☘️ and Poor .

@sammyj8601 3 ай бұрын

Amazing storytelling. I think I would have enjoyed history lessons more if we watched these videos.

@FactFeast 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Lots more like this on my channel.

@Wendy-rt5em 7 ай бұрын

We are living the things today all over the country. Very interesting love history Thank you

@user-fo3jd6lb4n Ай бұрын

Love your vid 👍

@FactFeast Ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

@mattchagnon5620 11 ай бұрын

11:57 dude in the upper left is an early photobomber. He was definitely the comedic relief in his circle.

@francisfischer7620 8 ай бұрын

This is where my people ended up. They never forgot. Stories handed on year after year.

@bonzie321 8 ай бұрын

Even though the voice is really spooky, I’m going to subscribe.

@yassasloan7308 10 ай бұрын

actually, The Bend has been reopened along with Collect Pond (though artificial pond instead of the natural spring it originally was)... you can still find dubious "kosher" dirty water franks on the block😅

@curbyourshi1056 Жыл бұрын

I love that relatively rich people walk into and commentate upon poor people. Imagine people from prosperous countries talking like that today if they went into the slums of say, the Philippines? They'd be cancelled and subject to utter derision. Kind of rightly so too. Keep up the great content!

@juliaedi111 11 ай бұрын

27:02

@cobainzlady 11 ай бұрын

we had to stop allowing so much mass immigration, in order to put a stop to this. people can' t just randomly come here with nothing, it doesn't work.

@lorascelsi8102 8 ай бұрын

Now no more tenements, just poor folks living in cars, tent cities, or on the streets.

@michaelharrison3602 10 ай бұрын

I grew up in Bermondsey, South London in the forties and fifties and conditions weren't that much better

@confusedbadger6275 6 ай бұрын

My father was born in Bradford in ghe mid 20's. Times were seriously tough. He went to work "down t'mill" at 12 years old.

@redneckroy8947 Жыл бұрын

"He carried a shelaighlie, possibly to be used as a club!" Ummmm, yeah, probably. It is literally an irish style club. Thats what it is for......

@curbyourshi1056 Жыл бұрын

Posh people, I swear...

@annem7806 Жыл бұрын

We had "Fresh Air" kids upstate in the 60's.

@jeffreyskoritowski4114 11 ай бұрын

Good grief. How'd that work out?

@matts1351 Жыл бұрын

Modern day NY is every rat’s dream opportunity. I can’t imagine 100 years ago before plumbing, ventilation, cleaning solutions, or pressure washers!

@johnmoore3953 11 ай бұрын

Truth

@katharper655 9 ай бұрын

Martin Scorsese's "GANGS OF NEW YORK" MOVIE depicts Civil War-era 5 Points...the movie, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio was spellbindingly brutal depiction of life in the 5 Points. Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall figure strongly.

@swannoir7949 7 ай бұрын

It wasn't the Civil War era. It was the Revolutionary War era.

@paulwolffart1251 6 ай бұрын

@@swannoir7949it was absolutely civil war era in the movie. The Irish coming into the US were immediately made to enlist in the Union Army and sent off to war. They even talk about Lincoln in the movie and an actor is depicted impersonating him on stage getting pummeled with rotten produce. Watch the movie again.

@user-fo3jd6lb4n Ай бұрын

Great Movie

@Heywoodthepeckerwood 8 ай бұрын

This was great. Sub’d

@FactFeast 8 ай бұрын

Thank you and welcome!

@shereesmazik5030 Жыл бұрын

What shocked me was the ad in the window for an opera and amber bead necklace .

@653j521 Жыл бұрын

Many Italians, poor or not, loved and sang opera.

@nathanwalsh3028 11 ай бұрын

Being i'm a fan of the gangs of new york movie this is very cool. The movie was pretty accurate I see.

@kathleenferguson3296 3 ай бұрын

That's how we lived in Greenwich Village. There are so many restaurants and bars downtown, because nobody can stay in their hot, tiny apartments. In the summer, the streets are swarming with people. The cops are on horses, because thr cars can't get through.

@northidenicc8287 11 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed watching 'The Bend '...

@FactFeast 11 ай бұрын

That’s great! Glad the history is interesting.

@leftymadrid 6 ай бұрын

This channel is Gold ❤

@FactFeast 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you’re interested in this history.

@1lthrnk Жыл бұрын

Our most famous Italian and Irish gangs started here

@joejones9520 11 ай бұрын

all in the same spot that a beautiful 40 acre natural spring fed pond was that was used for many yrs for fishing and ice-skating and even was the source of NYC's first water supply, Collect Pond, impossible to imagine it ever existed today

@thegreencat9947 11 ай бұрын

Dead Rabbits.

@barryallen8088 5 ай бұрын

Great!

@Downecker 6 ай бұрын

When the term " Spoiled Child " wasn't even thought of ! Very horrible times !😢😮

@t.y.5565 11 ай бұрын

As bad as the housing was where were the tenants supposed to go when their homes were demolished?

@Evocati-Augusti 2 ай бұрын

My neighborhood that was once owned by Tesla on his 200-acre Tower property in Shoreham NY, made a deal with he building to name the streets, the roads were cut in 1920 but it didn't fill up until the 60s,but they kept there word, some were obvious ,but the last street I couldn't find an answer until now, the street is called "The Bend" East Shoreham NY 11786 , and Tesla was there from 1895-1910 ,they said he had official stopped experiment in 1905, but he had built a house and 2 other labs under ground, then went from hotel to hotel in NYC when he stopped and lived about his life at the New Yorker.

@awomansfriend5784 Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be amazing if we could bring people like this back to just walk around for an hour than they disappear.

@estherrivera1063 2 ай бұрын

It's like sunset park 8th Avenue looking that way now it is scary

@bluefaery1865 11 ай бұрын

I'm subscribing 💙

@FactFeast 11 ай бұрын

Welcome to the channel!

@LiveSilence3 4 ай бұрын

This Guy is The BEST narrator For dark And horrible History

@FactFeast 4 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

@keithmccabe4040 Ай бұрын

Astounding.

@bryangoodson1721 8 ай бұрын

The series COPPERS on Amazon Prime highlights the time period and 4 Points. It’s excellent.

@bigshagg3815 3 ай бұрын

I just came from watching the colorized version of that guy in crutches walking down the street... crazy

@therange4033 Жыл бұрын

The condition some have to live in is almost the same. Just a different era.

@christinecollins6648 Жыл бұрын

The description of salami “ big awkward sausages, hanging “ lol

@cjaquilino 2 ай бұрын

People need to take into account that these narrator's descriptions of what they saw came with biases. Like the way they described produce and bread being sold by Italians as queer and oddly shaped. That's really just xenophobia and classism and unfamiliarity with what they're looking at. The bread looked good.

@davidsigalow7349 Жыл бұрын

I call this "The Good Old Days Were Terrible Channel."

@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

I'm sure you've read the book.

@davidsigalow7349 Жыл бұрын

@FactFeast Yes. I believe it to be one of the most important books I've read in the last 20 years, as, like your channel, it exposes the fallacy of "false nostalgia" for a "simpler time." Your channel makes it clear that if you live in a G10 country today, even poor people live better than 99% of all other humans, ever. Imagine what the citizens of lower Manhattan 120 years ago would say if they were told that one day, NYC would have "an epidemic of obesity."

@GraffitiForensics Жыл бұрын

One thing that stands out for me is how vulnerable children were living under those conditions of poverty. It has me wondering how bad the predator problem was, given all those vulnerable children. They were in great need of food, hygiene, hope, protection ... and that's not the entire list of things lacking that a predator will try to exploit and manipulate children with. Human trafficking? Child trafficking? We may never know how bad it was if records were destroyed or those crimes were not always documented. But it's clear the conditions children were living in made them prime targets of those who looked for opportunities to exploit them.

@davidsigalow7349 Жыл бұрын

Children were exploited horribly, but so were the adults - those who'd arrived a few years ago from The Old Country were happy to exploit the next group of greenhorns who trusted them.

@Catquick1957 Жыл бұрын

Read about Albert Fish

@mikemarley2389 Жыл бұрын

Child predation is worse now.

@jeltoninc.8542 11 ай бұрын

I mean Mary was like 12 when God knocked her up. Kinda gross.

@peggypasson8794 9 ай бұрын

I think that may be why my granny was so protective of us .they don't forget

@zegarmistrz00 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff

@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@WaldoBMC3 6 ай бұрын

thats where my family lived when they came from Italy. my Aunt Mini was born 1918 the first of our family born in America. she said it was bad when she was 10 years old.

@michaelharrison3602 10 ай бұрын

"Carrying a shelaiglie possibly as use as a club?"a club is what it is no other use

@gradyrm237 10 ай бұрын

How is procreation even on the minds of people during this Hell? Aside from not being able to house and feed the ones you already have, how do two people that must reek of a foulness I can't even imagine have sex? Someone PLEASE do a doc on that.

@ivycarrano8207 7 ай бұрын

I've offen wondered about that.

@AshleySpeaks09 7 ай бұрын

I’ve seen the highs and lows of housing so I’ll give you some insight. My last apts were income based town homes that also accepted section 8 (the devil). In a matter of 3mos what was a nice, affordable place to live became the hood. They came in with a bunch of kids and no job and did nothing all day long but lay up with their loser boyfriends. Now they have no car, no job, unit a mess, their lives are a mess but you can guarantee they’re going to have a warm body in bed!! Their kids could be dirty, not going to school, out all night they did not care. They had absolutely nothing to look forward to but the one thing that’s free: sex. Contrast that to my new apts on the other side of town. Come 5-6am there are hardly any cars in the lot because everyone is at WORK!!! The only ppl here during the day are wfh ppl like myself or older couples. When school lets out they don’t send their kids outside to play all night and make a ruckus. The kids here walk the dog and play for a bit (in front of their own unit) then they are back inside I’m sure for chores and homework. At my last apts every weekend was a party. I had never seen ppl have so much company. I grew up being taught you don’t have ppl over if your house is a mess, you have no food etc they didn’t care nor did their company. They would all just pile in the garage talking loud all night like they had no dwelling to go inside of. New apts the weekends are just as quiet as during the week. The singles have a life, the young couples work a lot it seems, young families are always gone and the elderly have a church van to take them out. Everyone over here is just regular but it’s so nice. I guarantee you most of the ppl in my new apts have like half the sex the ppl at my old apts do because 1) they have jobs 2) they actually raise their kids 3) want more out of life … I can’t be in the mood for a damn thing when I’m broke much less looking at an even broker man but some ppl really do not care. Back then was diff but you have ppl in 2023 still living like that by choice. That’s why rent is so high and you have to jump through hoops to get in trying to keep the trash out. And I’ll tell you something else race doesn’t even matter because my old apts had blk/white/Indian/Hispanic and poverty brought out the ugly in all of them. New apts are more white not gonna lie but you have a little color sprinkled in. I don’t even care as long as they’re clean and quiet. But ya that’s my little 2 cents I’ve lived in apts my whole life some better than others and I am telling you broke ppl love to screw. I get off more on a new purse but hey that’s just me.

@evanpetelle5669 7 ай бұрын

@@ivycarrano8207likewise haha.

@yankees29 7 ай бұрын

Alcohol 😂

@forestman2382 6 ай бұрын

Basic biology

@lanacampbell-moore6686 Жыл бұрын

Happy Sunday & Thanks F.F.❤

@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

Have a great day Lana!

@lanacampbell-moore6686 Жыл бұрын

@@FactFeast Ty you too😊

@MyPhobo 7 ай бұрын

5:06 "the optimists at the health department" lol

@danielroncaioli6882 5 ай бұрын

This is a great example of how my people were looked down upon and misunderstood by other Europeans and native New Yorkers.

@cheeseburgeralltopings7583 11 ай бұрын

I lived on Mulberry back in 1988 a few door steps from the social club of Gotti, it is not the same today....... j'adorais NYC à cette époque , aujourd'hui les loyers sont tout simplement trop hauts et empêche le melting pot that lower east side was, I lived on Stanton also and on Irvington with the portoricans ..... that was something else

@michaelknowles4005 9 ай бұрын

Real talk what goes up comes down

@janetbrown6409 Жыл бұрын

These conditions were rife in most countries at this time and worse before x

@Iamhermajesty9 11 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t say the conditions were worse before. Incredible population growth in cities resulted in overcrowding likes of which were never seen before. And then consider that they were all dirt poor

@cjaquilino 2 ай бұрын

@9:15 Bread looks good. The narrators of the time had their own biases, often looking down on anything poor or foreign when they didn't understand what they were even seeing.

@curbyourshi1056 Жыл бұрын

Keep it up!

@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 😊 Lots more to come and more from American social history too.

@curbyourshi1056 Жыл бұрын

@@FactFeast Sorry it's not enough to buy you a pint. Unless you catch Wetherspoons on a good day. I normally listen to videos to go to sleep, but the illustrations and photos are far too good to drift off to...

@FactFeast Жыл бұрын

I’m very grateful and happy too that you liked the presentation of the story 😀

@curbyourshi1056 Жыл бұрын

@@FactFeastYour enthusiasm shines through mate.

@incominghitdadirt9587 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like parts of any big city today.

@russmartin4189 3 ай бұрын

Jacob Riis did not use flashlights to take pictures at night. He used flash, which used flash powder that was ignited an produced a flash. The camera shown is a modern one. I studied and taught the history of photography and have a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Fine Art Photography. However, it was not the camera that was the limiting factor, it was the glass plates and their slow emulsions, necessitating the need for magnesium powder to light the dim interiors at night.

@HOsaroth 11 ай бұрын

Late 1800s [1888] sounds so horrible... Charles Dickens Era People worked so hard for us to have what we have today. Every generation gets better & better. Those people didn't even have electricity in their homes. So much has changed in 135 years of development.

@davehughesfarm7983 7 ай бұрын

not no ore...we going backwards