Take a tour of New York City in the 1800s.
Street scene showing the notorious Five Points intersection, with a crowd of people and stores, New York, 1829. After an old print.Manhattan's Five Points, named after the intersection, was a notorious area of 19th century NYC.It was also a magnet for the poorer population, including Irish immigrants and emancipated Black people, when the middle class left the area after the Collect Pond was transformed into a landfill, resulting in poor drainage and sliding foundations.
Also in the 19th century, a Catholic parochial school system was introduced as an alternative to state education.Young Boy / Factory WorkerJacob A. Riis/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images In the late 19th century, public baths became integral for tenement dwellers, for whom access to clean running water was uncommon.
It is thought Davy Crockett first used the phrase in reference to Five Points in 1835, saying:"In my part of the country, when you meet an Irishman, you find a first-rate gentleman; but these are worse than savages; they are too mean to swab hell's kitchen.
Vanderbilt was responsible for the building of the Vanderbilt Hotel, which he made his family home, and had holdings in many railroads. His passion though was coaching, then a sport in which gentlemen demonstrated their skills traveling on coaches. It was not a part of the original plans, but evolved from exotic animals being gifted to the park, with more than 250 animals being donated between 1864 and 1865.Statue of Liberty, New York Harbour, late 19th century. Photograph from Portfolio of Photographs, of Famous Scenes, Cities and Paintings by John L Stoddard, published by the Werner Company.
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