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Apartment Houses and French Flats
The city newspapers were full of real estate advertisements then, as they are now. With the development of apartment houses — some targeted for the very rich — a new vocabulary began to creep in. These New York Times ads … Continue reading
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Boarding Houses
Looking for a Place to Live Classified ads in the 1880s will make it clear how wide-spread and well established boarding house economy was. There were ads in every edition of every paper for decades. From Gamber’s excellent historical study: [,,,] … Continue reading
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Sanitation
The government of the city knew about the connection between poor health and poverty, and they knew too that the biggest part of the problem was the unsanitary conditions in tenement districts where almost all newly arrived immigrants found themselves. As … Continue reading
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