Why New York City needs ‘organic’ gentrification By . Steve Cuozzo. ... That is, when people follow their hearts and instincts to re-energize dead zones that we used to call slums.

A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890. Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images 2023-03-24T15:40:31Z ...

A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly ...

By the end of the 18th century, New York City's population had grown exponentially with thousands of immigrants looking for a better life in America. Many ended up settling down in the Big Apple ...

In 1924, Smith, the popular, cigar-chomping product of New York City's immigrant slums, began appointing the Yale- and Oxford-educated Moses to commissions that enabled him to start accumulating ...

A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890.Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images ...

As of 2022, about 1.6 million residents of New York City, or about 18 percent of its residents, ... In 2000, South Bronx was a decrepit slum given up as permanently dead; ...

The 1988 drama, which depicted the daily lives of children living in slums in India’s most populous city, ... The couple married, had their son and eventually settled in New York City.