Strangers in the City A first film by Yank Rick Carrier, this shows a Puerto Rican family in a Manhattan slum. The father is a vain, proud man with a lack of understanding of America or his family ...

Slums cannot be cleaned out all at once except ... known as Stuyvesant Town in the heart of the old East Side of Manhattan, and another to be known as Riverton in the Negro section of Harlem.

Shortly after, she married Photographer Russell Ogg and they settled down to live in a Manhattan slum on his $15-a-week salary. Norma quickly turned the hardship into $1,100 from the Reader’s ...

An extraordinary thing occurred amid the dangerous streets and crumbling tenement houses of the Five Points, the notorious 19th-century Lower Manhattan slum. Irish immigrants escaping the ...