Pages of life of ordinary and poor Americans in New York of the XIX century

When you imagine New York, the so-called "Big Apple", bright neon signs pop up in your mind, streets filled with pedestrians, where celebrities periodically meet, as well as invariable yellow taxis passing by in an endless string. Now everything is exactly like that, but in the XIX century New York was completely different. Then he was just beginning to show his character, although even then the gap between rich and poor was very noticeable, as it is today.

There is one property that New York has preserved to this day: this place is built on dreams, aspirations and hard work. Some go over their heads, while others turn their backs to help others, and all the rest are just silent and innocent bystanders. The modest, sometimes frankly poor life of the common people, who made New York the way it is now, is captured in these historical photographs.

Finally, we offer you a look at the newsreel, where you can see what New York was like in the XIX century:

Densely populated slum corners of New York.

People grow their own food in vegetable gardens.

A man is rummaging through the trash in search of something valuable.

On the ruins of a house.

In a working family, everyone is busy.

Young gentlemen.

Street pavement.

Girls in class.

The prisoner.

The backyards of simple houses are strewn with garbage and hung with laundry.

On the patio.

At a school lesson.

Laundry dries right on the street, almost on a tree.

In the square.

The porch of a wooden house.

Classes with children.

The police and the crowd.

Gamblers.

A migrant family.

Young athletes.

Barrels in the backyard.

Swimming pool.

Narrow dark streets.

The poor.

Street kids.

Near the post office.

Parade.

Poor lighting and overcrowding were characteristic features of New York at that time.

An old wooden house on the background of brick buildings.

Children play in the yard.

The fashionista.

A woman smokes a pipe and knits on knitting needles.

Prisoners.

A young nanny.

Yard guys.