“In New York City, you have slums, but they’re not visible,” Basar Girit, a partner at SITU Studio, tells Co.Design. “I think we wanted to bring that to people’s attention,” he says.

One immigrant photographer captured what it was like for New York’s poor during this time, and his images remain arresting today. The Danish-born carpenter Jacob Riis (1849-1914) migrated to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first six slum clearance sites in New York City were approved in 1955; the best-known, Lincoln Square, would lead to the creation of the Lincoln Center performing arts campus.

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.

In 19th-century New York, even tenements were ranked. Some were considered too good for the Irish, who were relegated to densely packed hovels in the urban shanty town of Five Points, on the Lower ...

In the slums of New Delhi, Mumbai, Cape Town, Manila, Karachi, Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi, ... Seattle, New York City, Oakland, Paris and London are vulnerable to the pandemic.

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 ...

Thanks to emigration triggered by the Famine, people born in Ireland comprised almost one third of the total population of New York by 1855. The city was changed forever - but how? Anelise Hanson ...