After visiting the Tenement Museum, I was initially able to picture in my head exactly what the tenements Foner described looked like.  These were much different than what the television crews and media portrayed them as, until Jacob Riss and his book How the Other Half Lives.  It was surprising to me to hear that todays living conditions, for the poor immigrants from third world countries are being compared to those of this time.  Thinking back on it though, the tenements were closed during the 1930s because of government regulation of the living conditions, and because most of the tenements did not abide by these laws they were forced to close.  The government believed that a safer alternative to these unsafe tenements were other communities, known as the projects.  The projects today are known are to be less safe neighborhoods where more lower income families live today.  It is unfortunate that immigrants are still forced to live in unsafe apartments where they face more and larger burdens than those that live elsewhere throughout the city.

As opposed to the immigrants of the 1900s immigrants of today are able to move the the United States with a job set up and able to support and middle to low middle class family.  During the 10–s an immigrant had to move to the areas throughout the city with the most job opportunities so one would be able to work to make ends meet somehow.  During this time the amount of Italian and Jewish immigrants moving in to the city was very high, and although they were never topographically living in close quarters, they experienced the same things.  The Italian and Jewish immigrants lived mainly around 14th street, and in those unsafe  tenements.  Immigrants also set up ‘ghettos’ which still exist today.  Today however they are less homogenous as young and single adults are moving into areas such as Chinatown.