The Historian · Eleanor · New York
Lower East Side Tenement walk (Orchard & Ludlow)
Around 1900, this neighborhood was the most densely populated place on Earth, packed with Jewish, Italian, and other immigrants in tenements built before housing law. Walk Orchard and Ludlow and you can still read it: the fire escapes mandated after reform, the narrow lots, the ghost signs, the synagogues turned into other things. The Tenement Museum anchors it, but the streets themselves are the document.
The streets that were the most crowded place on the planet around 1900 — read the tenements.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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