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Professor: Dr. Peter Vellon
peter.vellon@qc.cuny.edu
Instructional Technology Fellow: Caroline Erb-Medina
cerb@gc.cuny.edu
Category Archives: March
The Lower East Side
After years of a consistent arrival of immigrants, the Lower East Side became culturally rich. It was a new home for all the immigrants where they could keep their old traditions, practice their religions, and also try to assimilate into … Continue reading
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After reading chapter three of Tyler Anbinder’s Five Points, I couldn’t help but feel just as disgusted as the immigrants living in the tenement houses must have felt. Every part of the neighborhood was piled with garbage, apartments were crowded, stenches were … Continue reading
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Living Conditions Over The Decades
The living conditions the immigrants of the 1900’s faced did not surprise me. With the flood of immigrants coming to America starting a-new, they needed some place affordable to live. Small, overcrowded, unsanitary tenements were the answer to this; maybe … Continue reading
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150 Years of Similar Immigrant Behavior
A theme I picked up on in this week’s readings is that immigrants tend to behave in a similar fashion to what they did over one hundred years ago. Specifically, a feature common to immigrants both new and old is … Continue reading
Posted in March 5, Serinna Bradfield
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“A Moden Day Scandal”
When immigrants were coming here in the 1900s, many of them used to live in tenements. These tenements featured the worst living conditions possible on the Earth. People did not have plumbing, electricity, or even the right sewage systems that … Continue reading
Posted in March 5, Simranjit Kaur
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The Vicious Cycle
While reading the New York Times this past week I came across an article titled “After Years of Delay, a Lower East Side Gap Is Ready to Be Filled.” The first paragraph reads, “Nearly half a century after a neighborhood … Continue reading
Posted in Amanda Lederman, March 5
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Tenement Living and Despicable Overcrowding in New York City
As immigrants flooded into the New York in the mid 1800’s, their primary concern was to find a job that would earn them enough money to live comfortably, or possibly pay for family members to join them in the states. … Continue reading
Posted in Evan Lefkovitz, March 5
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Tenement Living
You know a situation is bad if you cringe reading about it. Learning about the extent of the unsanitary, inadequate, and horrible tenement life was definitely cringe-worthy. At some points, it was difficult to continue reading, because I felt such … Continue reading
Posted in Gabrielle Kirschner, March 5
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Source of Hate
When Nancy Foner talks about the old immigrants, she talks about the horrific living conditions they were forced into. These low class immigrants from Ireland and other European countries endured near-homeless conditions in their hopes of a better life. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Jordan Willner, March 5
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Subpar Living Conditions, Then and Now
I find it appalling that some of the most atrocious indecencies that turn of the century immigrants suffered are still around for the immigrants of today. When reading Nancy Foner’s description of the tenements, I could not believe the squalor … Continue reading
Posted in Danielle Cohen, March 5
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