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How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. The photographs served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes. They ...
The project had three goals: slum elimination, community engagement and education, and improving residents' access to services. The main goal of the project was slum elimination in the area. This was to be done by moving the families from their informal settlement into single-family homes in a newly developed area.
Slum clearance in the United States has been used as an urban renewal strategy to regenerate derelict or run-down districts, often to be replaced with alternative developments or new housing. Early calls were made during the 19th century, although mass slum clearance did not occur until after World War II with the introduction of the Housing ...
It was the first instance in which Robert Moses' practice of "honest graft"—the method by which Slum Clearance chairman Moses distributed premiums, contracts and retainers to favored and incompetent friends—was revealed in the press. Under Title I, the plot of tenements worth $15 million (equivalent to $192 million in 2023) had been sold ...
The production of maps ceased after the new 2003 law, but—as of 2009—there are still thousands of cases utilizing the maps from injuries predating the law. [1] A December 18, 2008 ruling by the New York Court of Appeals, D'Onofrio v. City of New York, significantly lessened the liability the city faces as a result of the maps.
Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement Life in New York City. New York: Century. 1896. A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York. New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1900. The Making of an American. New York: Macmillan. 1901. Google Books, Archive.org, LibriVox recording; The Battle with the Slum. New York: Houghton ...
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Columbus Park formerly known as Mulberry Bend Park, Five Points Park and Paradise Park, is a public park in Chinatown, Manhattan, in New York City that was built in 1897. American photojournalist Jacob Riis (best known for How The Other Half Lives ) is generally credited with "transforming Mulberry Bend from a 'notorious slum' to a park" in ...