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Where Irish and Italian were coddled, clearly living in the lap of white privilege luxury back then while poor Black neighbors suffered. Reparations due.
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The Five Points was a stepping stone to better lives in other parts of America. The first arrivals had it the worst, their kids and grandkids were better off. My grandfather was one of 12 children, all of whom were sent to work in factories from the age of 7, not to mention the work of his father. The factory paid them, provided one meal per day, and had classes which taught the kids to read, write, and do basic math. The combined labor of the entire family allowed them to buy a farm in Pennsylvania, and their farm prospered. It still exists today. My grandfather, one of the youngest, hated farm life, and ran away from home at 14 to enlist in the US Army as a Cavalryman (almost half of the old Cavalry was Irish). The Army knew he wasn't old enough, but couldn't prove it, so they put him through hell to scare him off, but he toughed it out, becoming a horse soldier at the ripe age of 15. The people of those days were a made of sterner stuff than today.
@@danaleanne38 Yes and Scottish but both could be the same. I'm a baby boomer from the old neighborhood. Clinton Hill in Brooklyn. You never forget your roots if your from NYC.
I live in the lower east side and I'm 1 of probably 10 Irish people who still live in the neighborhood. My family came to NYC during the famine and never left.
I guess I was lucky my Irish famine ancestors came thru Canada and farming before crossing the river to Detroit 1890s and Grand Rapids MI 1850s set us on a path to Middle Class lifestyle! It was easier to emigrate to Canada as it at the time was part of British Commonwealth!
My Grandparents and mother and her siblings all lived in the Lower East side. My Grandfather had a push cart in the Essex Street market up unto the 1970’s. I am a product of those dirty streets and Mulberry Street is always special to me.
I always stay humble because I respect my roots on those immigrant ships, sweat shops and people who would not quit. Hard work! When my Grandfather finally died, he had over 3 million in investments and savings. He never gambled and he supported his children and loved his grandchildren and great grandchildren. His struggles made me stronger. I work as a plumber because I value the contribution I make more then the money I earn for my service.
I came from both the Irish and Italian of NYC. That was our home - we worked our way out of it as did all the immigrant groups who came out of the same places.
The Mulberry “Bend” still exists. The neighborhood is now part of Chinatown. The tenement buildings on the east side of Mulberry Bend are still there and the west side of the street is now Columbus Park. The park extends south to Worth Street, encompassing the former Five Points intersection.
Just discovered you. Wow. What an absolute treat. Fantastic narration ,so poetic and descriptive . The old photos are still so clear after over 100 years and portray the plight of these people so poignantly. So glad I found you.
Now one of the better neighborhoods in NYC. Slept overnight in my father's shop on Baxter Street in the 1960's. Couldn't get any sleep as a drunk Italian neighbor practiced his opera singing no doubt fantasizing, he was Caruso. One of the reasons the subway system was built was to reduce the congestion in lower Manhattan.
For a time but they quickly moved up, to be replaced by the next crop of immigrants. That's how America works, the latest immigrants are on the bottom. First the Irish and Germans, then the Italians and Jews, now the south americans.
It was STILL better than starving during a potato famine or working as a sharecropping peasant. At least, your children could get some public education and have a chance at something better.
Thankfully their kids grew up and served in the Military and became fully American, if they actually survived WWI and/or WWII. God bless our ancestors, and may they RIP
@@koalaeinstein-y7r Not all of them, but a long shot. I knew many who arrived during this time. My own mother's parents came that way. What people don't know and this video does not cover is that there was a placement program and eventually people found places to go and start up a life. They had to find work for them, first. But many cities' factories were filled in this way. My grandfather was a tailor and ran his own shop in upper Pennsylvania. They had a good life and eight children. Several of them became wealthy. One became a multimillionaire by the 1960s - legally.
I so look forward to your new posts, your stories and your narrative style are always so enjoyable. Thank you for all you put into your channel. Much respect from Maine, US.
Thank you sooo much. I have been looking for ages to find documentaries about real people. Everything is about the rich and well off!! There were more of us than them!! - as there are now - and they couldn’t give a dam-!! At least, most of the working poor don’t live as horribly as that anymore.
Bless the souls of the poor who once lived in the slums of NYC-most were decent people who, wanting to provide for their families, took their courage in hand-and their life savings-and immigrated across the ocean to a totally alien world…. Driven by The Great Irish Potato Famine, the nonstop German wars & uprisings for unity, and by a host of other upheavals, most didn’t speak the language, and took any job(s) they could find-while living in the only places they could afford (and as The Gilded Age swanned along, they died by the thousands - from all of the diseases associated with poverty, squalor & hopelessness: Cholera, Yellow Fever & Tuberculosis)…..Have mercy upon them.
I'm grateful that my Victorian era Irish and Scottish ancestors went West to farm. The were hungry, but they made a good life. The Potato Famine was a senseless and unnecessary event, cause by selfish greed. The Italians were initially "stuck" in the cities, but like smart immigrants do, they pooled together into ethnic neighborhoods or rural "Trachts" and helped each other: Germans did it, Irish, Japanese, Arab, until they became "accepted" into mainstream culture or whatever.
@@chrisper7527 If I went to their land, I would be happy to be accepted. But I don't have a chip on my shoulder. This is not at all the situation for African Americans. No comparison.
@@chrisper7527 it's always been their poor behavior that holds them back or that inspires discrimination, today with media it's so easy to see what the problem is, everyday same thing wherever they are in the world and that's even with media covering for them.
@@chrisper7527 lol, you're raining on the pity party. These people think it's realistic to waltz into a country with no skills or money and be automatically accepted into the upper classes. In no country on earth has this ever happened to anyone. And yet the descendants of these European immigrants ascended into the middle and upper classes of the US in just a few generations; for some it was even quicker.
@@FactFeast Sorry it's not enough to buy you a pint. Unless you catch Wetherspoons on a good day. I normally listen to videos to go to sleep, but the illustrations and photos are far too good to drift off to...
Love these street names: "Can you direct me to 'Bandit's Roost'?" "Well, you go east on 'Ragpickers Row' until you get to 'Dead Goat 🐐 Park'...then make a right on 'Blood Alley' and you can't miss it- just look for some filthy, meanacing tramps in bowler hats carrying clubs."
@@JavajavajavThere were still many slums in Manhattan all the way up to the 1980s/90s. Even today, there are a handful of slums in Manhattan, but they are very small and scattered due to gentrification
Overcrowded, overrun homeless camps in CA, keep adding more and more unhoused! Homeless shelters can't keep up with the demand by migrants from Mexican border crisis! Over 5 million people this year alone?
My great grandparents left Genoa and arrived in New York in 1884. They lived in a tenement on Baxter Street near Bayard Street for years before moving to Downing Street in the Village and then on to Bay Ridge. Their neighbors on Baxter Street were mostly Genoese who spoke the dialect (which to my ear sounds more like French than Italian) There were still some Irish and Irish-Americans living on lower Baxter in those days. I am told my family often spoke of Baxter Street in fond reminiscences. Thank you for the informative video and evocative photos!
Wow!!! I just found your TH-cam site and subscribed within seconds of seeing your content. I was always fascinated by the Victorian and Edwardian periods and criminal elements of that era. I have seen videos scattered about on various websites but nothing as detailed as yours. Great stuff, and keep those videos coming!!!
I like the narrative style of all these readings, but something struck me especially about the words "pristine nastiness". In context, it really illustrates the feeling, I think.
No, there wasn’t anything pristine about it but I think the OP was pointing out the juxtaposition of putting those two words together rather than trying to make any of it sound or seem fanciful. It’s like the term “exquisite pain.” Sounds wrong coming out of the mouth but it describes what some people experience. Maybe not. Have a great day all!
Already there with the most expensive zip code in the country as a close by suburb. Some of those ultra rich folks hire ex-military army, marines, etc. as property body gaurds. Wont see no skinny jean wearing, black hoodie havin, window smashing with a spark plug to steal your dirty laundry from camping because it's in a 200$ northface backpack, worthless excuse for a body, stole mom's car and crashed it for the THIRD time, hope some other P.O.S. takes them out for good, won't be missed ever, better world without them, lo-life theif, tweaker, bum, in that neighborhood. Area has smart camera recognition that alerts local police, county sherrif's, private security, if your car isn't worth 130,000$
My grandfather and grandmother came from Ireland to the 5 pts in 1905. He got shot in a bar in the 5pts. My dad was born in 1910 and I know life was very hard. Large Irish Catholic family. But he became a teamster ( I remember when the drivers would strike.) We had a large apt and small country home in Conn and my bro and I went to 12 yrs of Catholic School. He lived a good life.
Theres a great book that details this slum. A john jakes book called the American. Its part of the kent family chronicles. The entire series is a must read.
I was born and raised on the Lower East side of NY. My family lived there in the 40s We lived there until 1977. It was then and still is A rough neighborhood. In order to survive you HAD to be a good fighter or else!!! I grew up with a group of guys who were the Bowery boys. We all did things we won’t do now however, back then we did what we had to do.
I have heard somewhere that the apartment on the honeymooners was based on Jackie Gleeson's experience as a boy in the early 1900's in a New York city tenement slum apartment.
One thing that stands out for me is how vulnerable children were living under those conditions of poverty. It has me wondering how bad the predator problem was, given all those vulnerable children. They were in great need of food, hygiene, hope, protection ... and that's not the entire list of things lacking that a predator will try to exploit and manipulate children with. Human trafficking? Child trafficking? We may never know how bad it was if records were destroyed or those crimes were not always documented. But it's clear the conditions children were living in made them prime targets of those who looked for opportunities to exploit them.
Children were exploited horribly, but so were the adults - those who'd arrived a few years ago from The Old Country were happy to exploit the next group of greenhorns who trusted them.
I love that relatively rich people walk into and commentate upon poor people. Imagine people from prosperous countries talking like that today if they went into the slums of say, the Philippines? They'd be cancelled and subject to utter derision. Kind of rightly so too. Keep up the great content!
People need to take into account that these narrator's descriptions of what they saw came with biases. Like the way they described produce and bread being sold by Italians as queer and oddly shaped. That's really just xenophobia and classism and unfamiliarity with what they're looking at. The bread looked good.
4:16... the Bowery comes from the old french Bouverie "place for the oxen (bœufs-> bouverie) " i don't know if this was imported from London ( there is a bowery in stoke newington ) or directly from france too....
Yep, there's a Bouverie Road in Stoke Newington, and runs alongside Abney Park. It's off Manor Road if I remember rightly. I used to get taken to play in the paddling pool in Clissold Park as a kid. Happy days 😊.
Good grief. In perspective, NYC has been and will always be a xenobobe’s nightmare. Just change the country of origin every 30 yrs or so… But it’s also a testament that every community rose up to the challenges, overcame adversity, and moved on. NYC is a survivor’s land and will continue to be. 🇺🇸
How is procreation even on the minds of people during this Hell? Aside from not being able to house and feed the ones you already have, how do two people that must reek of a foulness I can't even imagine have sex? Someone PLEASE do a doc on that.
I’ve seen the highs and lows of housing so I’ll give you some insight. My last apts were income based town homes that also accepted section 8 (the devil). In a matter of 3mos what was a nice, affordable place to live became the hood. They came in with a bunch of kids and no job and did nothing all day long but lay up with their loser boyfriends. Now they have no car, no job, unit a mess, their lives are a mess but you can guarantee they’re going to have a warm body in bed!! Their kids could be dirty, not going to school, out all night they did not care. They had absolutely nothing to look forward to but the one thing that’s free: sex. Contrast that to my new apts on the other side of town. Come 5-6am there are hardly any cars in the lot because everyone is at WORK!!! The only ppl here during the day are wfh ppl like myself or older couples. When school lets out they don’t send their kids outside to play all night and make a ruckus. The kids here walk the dog and play for a bit (in front of their own unit) then they are back inside I’m sure for chores and homework. At my last apts every weekend was a party. I had never seen ppl have so much company. I grew up being taught you don’t have ppl over if your house is a mess, you have no food etc they didn’t care nor did their company. They would all just pile in the garage talking loud all night like they had no dwelling to go inside of. New apts the weekends are just as quiet as during the week. The singles have a life, the young couples work a lot it seems, young families are always gone and the elderly have a church van to take them out. Everyone over here is just regular but it’s so nice. I guarantee you most of the ppl in my new apts have like half the sex the ppl at my old apts do because 1) they have jobs 2) they actually raise their kids 3) want more out of life … I can’t be in the mood for a damn thing when I’m broke much less looking at an even broker man but some ppl really do not care. Back then was diff but you have ppl in 2023 still living like that by choice. That’s why rent is so high and you have to jump through hoops to get in trying to keep the trash out. And I’ll tell you something else race doesn’t even matter because my old apts had blk/white/Indian/Hispanic and poverty brought out the ugly in all of them. New apts are more white not gonna lie but you have a little color sprinkled in. I don’t even care as long as they’re clean and quiet. But ya that’s my little 2 cents I’ve lived in apts my whole life some better than others and I am telling you broke ppl love to screw. I get off more on a new purse but hey that’s just me.
Italians living cheek-by-jowl with the Irish in crowded, horrible poverty; what other than the obvious mayhem could happen there? History is repeating itself as we are reliving these Good Ole Days with the huge amount of poor homeless and uncontrolled influx of migrants unabled to be housed.
They all eventually assimilated and learned English. There children and especially their grandchildren found the American dream ? What a difference then today
I am old enough to remember as a kid the old wood Tenement buildings from the 1800’s, we lived in two of them, 3 story rental’s in Boston. 3 small rooms, Kitchen, Living Room served as bedroom also, one smaller bedroom for my parents, one toilet in a closet in parents bedroom. One bathtub in the building on the second floor in a small room in the hallway. Cast Iron kitchen stove converted to Kerosene. No central heat in the building, the cast iron stove oven was our apartment heat. I remember the rag man pushing his spoked wheel cart picking up rags in the neighborhood to sell. Vegetable and fruit carts. One of the old wooden ghetto’s burned to the ground, enormous 5 alarm fire. Today my old neighborhood is unrecognizable except one huge ‘’OLD’’ factory turned into condos. Today you can see those old tenements in old photos posted on YT. Life inside the Ghetto’s back then like I grew up in as a kid.
How are you doing sir. Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Honestly with every new video you posted we learn new vocabularies and new information. First of all I looked up for meaning of bandit is armed thief ( in order use ) one who attacks people while they are traveling. Synonyms gangster , outlaw , crook . Bandit roost 59/ 2 mulberry street . In early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis documenting living conditions in New York slums in 1880s . How other half lives studies among tenements of New York . The photography taken in “ bend “ dangerous and poor alley in mulberry street newyork city that no longer exist . Bend was core of city tenement slums known for crime ridden populations of mostly Italian origin . Riis social activism in pursuit of better life conditions for poorest classes of New York where picture was published one of best examples was one of factors that led to demolition of mulberry bend which was later replaced by park . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information. Good luck to you your dearest ones .
Seeing this reminds me of my neighbors' yards. They can't pick up a thing; their trash piles just grow and grow. To see them on the street they look clean enough, but their properties! I'm waiting to see a commode on somebody's front porch.
I got a commode specifically for yard decor because my neighbors pissed me off with all their shenanigans and loud music starting at around 4 am and going all through the day and until midnight or later. Thankfully they've moved away. I was out there every day sweeping and picking up the trash other people littered until they moved in and then someone called the city on me for growing vegetable plants in buckets. The city was absolutely horrible to deal with and my health has gone downhill majorly so idgaf anymore.
Even though Men & Women could barely feed themselves and lived in small squalid rooms they had no problem producing more and more Children that they could not properly care for.
Basic biology, people, especially men , have an urge to mate and they didn't have any technology to distract them and not much of other forms of entertainment
actually, The Bend has been reopened along with Collect Pond (though artificial pond instead of the natural spring it originally was)... you can still find dubious "kosher" dirty water franks on the block😅
all in the same spot that a beautiful 40 acre natural spring fed pond was that was used for many yrs for fishing and ice-skating and even was the source of NYC's first water supply, Collect Pond, impossible to imagine it ever existed today
Martin Scorsese's "GANGS OF NEW YORK" MOVIE depicts Civil War-era 5 Points...the movie, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio was spellbindingly brutal depiction of life in the 5 Points. Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall figure strongly.
@@swannoir7949it was absolutely civil war era in the movie. The Irish coming into the US were immediately made to enlist in the Union Army and sent off to war. They even talk about Lincoln in the movie and an actor is depicted impersonating him on stage getting pummeled with rotten produce. Watch the movie again.
Everyone loves to tell the story of their great grand pappy coming to America with a nickel in his pocket but then they're so confused and upset by current immigration.
@004bop No. They didn't. They created Little Italys and South Boston and Chinatowns and Brooklyn and most never left their neighborhoods. They would continue to speak their native language, eat native foods, and practice their native religion. But maybe a few kids would leave of the next generation. Then a few of the next. And the next and so on. To the point that now people are mad they sleeping with their daughter. Have you visited a major metropolitan city in the US?
That's how we lived in Greenwich Village. There are so many restaurants and bars downtown, because nobody can stay in their hot, tiny apartments. In the summer, the streets are swarming with people. The cops are on horses, because thr cars can't get through.
It's not a slum anymore. I was there a few months ago. It's a busy metropolitan area. Coffee shops, benches, restaurants and you would never know the history if you didn't know it
So horrible The living conditions in their time Five 📌 points NYC really had a notorious rep my great 👵 granny landed in Boston Massachusetts 🚢 she was newly off the boat from county Clare Ireland🇮🇪☘️ and Poor .
Most of these “investigate reporters/journalists” that penned these creepy and dehumanizing articles come off as far less human or deserving of respect than any of the working class people they wrote about so viciously. Half of these videos tick me off, just the way that the original writer speaks with such degrading terms about these people. Of course things were dirty, most of these people immigrated here with little more than pennies leftover after buying their ship fare, with no indoor plumbing, not even so much as a damn bathtub to share dingy bathwater in. They made do with what they had. Doesn’t mean they were animals. Makes me hate the reporters that wrote these things
Stories like this are where most of the negative Italian stereotypes come from. The way hes describing these people without any context just pisses me off. My maternal grandparents emigrated from Italy about 1930 and my cousins were still dealing with this crap in the 80s.
@@FactFeast your my favourite vicorian/Edwardian channel..And the man who tells the storys his voice is perfiction artwork and photos and I love the new colouring your doing now...I always must watch and keep in my vault..Thankyou for takeing time to always show the common foke💚👌🤩
@FactFeast Yes. I believe it to be one of the most important books I've read in the last 20 years, as, like your channel, it exposes the fallacy of "false nostalgia" for a "simpler time." Your channel makes it clear that if you live in a G10 country today, even poor people live better than 99% of all other humans, ever. Imagine what the citizens of lower Manhattan 120 years ago would say if they were told that one day, NYC would have "an epidemic of obesity."
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Where Irish and Italian were coddled, clearly living in the lap of white privilege luxury back then while poor Black neighbors suffered. Reparations due.
Or ny, already is
Do you know the name of the painting at 2:06, the woman holding onto the two girls and talking to the man?
THANK YOU SIR
And now NYC is returning to become the same filled with illegal immigrants.
I love how TH-cam has more interesting stuff than I can find on the actual history channel
This!
Or any TV subscription app 👌👌 I watch nothing but TH-cam and I've never ever not once struggled to find something new to watch 🤗🤗
@@EmmaQuigley-s5kI don't watch the big box anymore.... TH-cam is the TV of the poor,disposessed and the underclass....if it wasn't for this they wouldn't have ANY MEDIA .at all ...long may it continue....independent information......
@@poundsign9731 correct 💯
@Christopherogley the poor dispossessed underclass own computers or cell phones? 😂
The Five Points was a stepping stone to better lives in other parts of America. The first arrivals had it the worst, their kids and grandkids were better off. My grandfather was one of 12 children, all of whom were sent to work in factories from the age of 7, not to mention the work of his father. The factory paid them, provided one meal per day, and had classes which taught the kids to read, write, and do basic math. The combined labor of the entire family allowed them to buy a farm in Pennsylvania, and their farm prospered. It still exists today. My grandfather, one of the youngest, hated farm life, and ran away from home at 14 to enlist in the US Army as a Cavalryman (almost half of the old Cavalry was Irish). The Army knew he wasn't old enough, but couldn't prove it, so they put him through hell to scare him off, but he toughed it out, becoming a horse soldier at the ripe age of 15. The people of those days were a made of sterner stuff than today.
Yes, and they were Irish
@@danaleanne38 my grandfather went to Penn too as a coal miner and left as a boxer
@@danaleanne38 Yes and Scottish but both could be the same. I'm a baby boomer from the old neighborhood. Clinton Hill in Brooklyn. You never forget your roots if your from NYC.
This is why not everyone deserves a trophy and we are NOT equal. Your grandfather was a man of courage and work ethic. Choices 😊
God bless your grandfather
I live in the lower east side and I'm 1 of probably 10 Irish people who still live in the neighborhood. My family came to NYC during the famine and never left.
Wow, your family has been in the lower east side the entire time?
I guess I was lucky my Irish famine ancestors came thru Canada and farming before crossing the river to Detroit 1890s and Grand Rapids MI 1850s set us on a path to Middle Class lifestyle! It was easier to emigrate to Canada as it at the time was part of British Commonwealth!
That’s pretty cool
That’s amazing. Hopefully your property value has skyrocketed!
You never left LES/Alphabet city?!
My Grandparents and mother and her siblings all lived in the Lower East side. My Grandfather had a push cart in the Essex Street market up unto the 1970’s. I am a product of those dirty streets and Mulberry Street is always special to me.
I always stay humble because I respect my roots on those immigrant ships, sweat shops and people who would not quit. Hard work! When my Grandfather finally died, he had over 3 million in investments and savings. He never gambled and he supported his children and loved his grandchildren and great grandchildren. His struggles made me stronger. I work as a plumber because I value the contribution I make more then the money I earn for my service.
I came from both the Irish and Italian of NYC. That was our home - we worked our way out of it as did all the immigrant groups who came out of the same places.
My family is from the Westside. Hells Kitchen I believe. They had that crazy accent. Toilet and Boil=Terlet and Burl
I'm forever fascinated with NYC.
The Mulberry “Bend” still exists. The neighborhood is now part of Chinatown. The tenement buildings on the east side of Mulberry Bend are still there and the west side of the street is now Columbus Park. The park extends south to Worth Street, encompassing the former Five Points intersection.
No it's not!
I love the slums people are real they don’t play any games
@@dondamon4669 get a life
@@springsummerwinterorfall I hear it’s cheap rent ? You should move there and marry someone from there 😊
@@fleadoggreen9062 No, it's not. Some of the most expensive real estate in the City. Now.
Just discovered you. Wow. What an absolute treat. Fantastic narration ,so poetic and descriptive . The old photos are still so clear after over 100 years and portray the plight of these people so poignantly. So glad I found you.
Thank you and welcome to the channel! You will find more videos like this on the channel page.
My Grandfather and uncle used to live in Manhattan in the 1920s. They still had tents in Central Park.
They have tents in Central Park now, and on the sidewalks.
Yeah. I think the West Side of Central Park had a lot of squatters. It got worse during the Great Depression.
Now one of the better neighborhoods in NYC. Slept overnight in my father's shop on Baxter Street in the 1960's. Couldn't get any sleep as a drunk Italian neighbor practiced his opera singing no doubt fantasizing, he was Caruso. One of the reasons the subway system was built was to reduce the congestion in lower Manhattan.
It's so tragic that these poor people came to America for a better life and landed up living in the same conditions they left or worse...
For a time but they quickly moved up, to be replaced by the next crop of immigrants. That's how America works, the latest immigrants are on the bottom. First the Irish and Germans, then the Italians and Jews, now the south americans.
It was STILL better than starving during a potato famine or working as a sharecropping peasant. At least, your children could get some public education and have a chance at something better.
Thankfully their kids grew up and served in the Military and became fully American, if they actually survived WWI and/or WWII. God bless our ancestors, and may they RIP
@@koalaeinstein-y7r Not all of them, but a long shot. I knew many who arrived during this time. My own mother's parents came that way. What people don't know and this video does not cover is that there was a placement program and eventually people found places to go and start up a life. They had to find work for them, first. But many cities' factories were filled in this way. My grandfather was a tailor and ran his own shop in upper Pennsylvania. They had a good life and eight children. Several of them became wealthy. One became a multimillionaire by the 1960s - legally.
they made it what it was, by coming here with no education, no skills and poor morals....then they bred like rats.
I so look forward to your new posts, your stories and your narrative style are always so enjoyable. Thank you for all you put into your channel.
Much respect from Maine, US.
It's really nice to hear from a regular viewer and know that the videos are worthwhile. Thank you so much for writing.
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Thank you sooo much. I have been looking for ages to find documentaries about real people. Everything is about the rich and well off!! There were more of us than them!! - as there are now - and they couldn’t give a dam-!! At least, most of the working poor don’t live as horribly as that anymore.
I've been watching this channel since the very first episode and I never miss one!!😊
You’re a ⭐️ moondancer. I’m lucky to have your support 😊
Bless the souls of the poor who once lived in the slums of NYC-most were decent people who, wanting to provide for their families, took their courage in hand-and their life savings-and immigrated across the ocean to a totally alien world….
Driven by The Great Irish Potato Famine, the nonstop German wars & uprisings for unity, and by a host of other upheavals, most didn’t speak the language, and took any job(s) they could find-while living in the only places they could afford (and as The Gilded Age swanned along, they died by the thousands - from all of the diseases associated with poverty, squalor & hopelessness: Cholera, Yellow Fever & Tuberculosis)…..Have mercy upon them.
*emigrated
Not immigrated
In the context you wrote
Absolutely true. Should be taught at schools.
How bad were conditions in other countries, when someone says 'pack ur bags kids, we're moving to blood alley!'
I'm grateful that my Victorian era Irish and Scottish ancestors went West to farm. The were hungry, but they made a good life. The Potato Famine was a senseless and unnecessary event, cause by selfish greed. The Italians were initially "stuck" in the cities, but like smart immigrants do, they pooled together into ethnic neighborhoods or rural "Trachts" and helped each other: Germans did it, Irish, Japanese, Arab, until they became "accepted" into mainstream culture or whatever.
Lol@“Accepted”. Isn’t it wonderful to be “accepted” where you are given a pass to flourish? Too bad for the African Americans.😒
@@chrisper7527 If I went to their land, I would be happy to be accepted. But I don't have a chip on my shoulder. This is not at all the situation for African Americans. No comparison.
@@chrisper7527 it's always been their poor behavior that holds them back or that inspires discrimination, today with media it's so easy to see what the problem is, everyday same thing wherever they are in the world and that's even with media covering for them.
@@chrisper7527 lol, you're raining on the pity party. These people think it's realistic to waltz into a country with no skills or money and be automatically accepted into the upper classes. In no country on earth has this ever happened to anyone. And yet the descendants of these European immigrants ascended into the middle and upper classes of the US in just a few generations; for some it was even quicker.
@@chrisper7527what are you 10? Stop your crying already!!
Brilliant indeed, what a terrible hard life those poor people went through....
For them it was just normality, they had no experience or expectations of anything different....
@@CeltopiaMany of them missed their homes, ruined by colonialism.
Love this video, lived in the LES in the 80s as an immigrant, now in Brooklyn and tried., Love this City.
Keep it up!
Thank you so much! 😊 Lots more to come and more from American social history too.
@@FactFeast Sorry it's not enough to buy you a pint. Unless you catch Wetherspoons on a good day. I normally listen to videos to go to sleep, but the illustrations and photos are far too good to drift off to...
I’m very grateful and happy too that you liked the presentation of the story 😀
@@FactFeastYour enthusiasm shines through mate.
My 3rd great grandfather John Mulrooney stayed at 74 1/2 Mulberry St. when he arrived from Ireland. It’s now part of Chinatown.
Most of NYC is now China town.
Love these street names:
"Can you direct me to 'Bandit's Roost'?"
"Well, you go east on 'Ragpickers Row' until you get to 'Dead Goat 🐐 Park'...then make a right on 'Blood Alley' and you can't miss it- just look for some filthy, meanacing tramps in bowler hats carrying clubs."
Toooo funeeee!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
This must have been what Rick was talking about when he said “there’s certain parts of NY I wouldn’t advise you invade” to the Germans in Casablanca.
The neighborhood was demolished and the park built in 1897 so no, since that movie took place 40 years later...
@@JavajavajavThere were still many slums in Manhattan all the way up to the 1980s/90s. Even today, there are a handful of slums in Manhattan, but they are very small and scattered due to gentrification
I'm a new subscriber to your Channel 💚 Thanks for sharing !
Welcome to the channel! Thank you 😊
Overcrowded, overrun homeless camps in CA, keep adding more and more unhoused! Homeless shelters can't keep up with the demand by migrants from Mexican border crisis! Over 5 million people this year alone?
My great grandparents left Genoa and arrived in New York in 1884. They lived in a tenement on Baxter Street near Bayard Street for years before moving to Downing Street in the Village and then on to Bay Ridge. Their neighbors on Baxter Street were mostly Genoese who spoke the dialect (which to my ear sounds more like French than Italian) There were still some Irish and Irish-Americans living on lower Baxter in those days. I am told my family often spoke of Baxter Street in fond reminiscences. Thank you for the informative video and evocative photos!
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s great to know you found the history and photos so interesting.
i bet its hell now too
It's definitely difficult hard to picture such conditions as those above, but the photos prove they did exist! Oh, my goodness!
Wow!!! I just found your TH-cam site and subscribed within seconds of seeing your content. I was always fascinated by the Victorian and Edwardian periods and criminal elements of that era. I have seen videos scattered about on various websites but nothing as detailed as yours. Great stuff, and keep those videos coming!!!
Thank you and welcome to the channel! Lots more to come 🙂
Sounds the same as parts of Victorin London or Glasgow
Yes, humans pretty much do the same sorts of things, just in different place and different languages. We are creatures of habit 😂
I like the narrative style of all these readings, but something struck me especially about the words "pristine nastiness". In context, it really illustrates the feeling, I think.
Just edgy old school talk to me. Anyone can form a dichotomy.
No, there wasn’t anything pristine about it but I think the OP was pointing out the juxtaposition of putting those two words together rather than trying to make any of it sound or seem fanciful. It’s like the term “exquisite pain.” Sounds wrong coming out of the mouth but it describes what some people experience. Maybe not. Have a great day all!
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Good Grief.... Im 63 years old, but you Really Opened My Eyes wiith that, Hun. - Thank You x
So much wealth in NYC, Vanderbilts, Astors, and instead of helping these people they were building large mansions and throwing expensive parties.
Nothing has changed honestly
Just like today 21st century 😢
Same thing today. Wealth inequality is actually worse now
That’s not far off from where San Francisco California is headed today
Every city in the US is rapidly becoming just like this.
Based !!!!
Heading? It was very french revolutiony when I lived there a few years ago. The pandemic has not helped
Already there with the most expensive zip code in the country as a close by suburb. Some of those ultra rich folks hire ex-military army, marines, etc. as property body gaurds. Wont see no skinny jean wearing, black hoodie havin, window smashing with a spark plug to steal your dirty laundry from camping because it's in a 200$ northface backpack, worthless excuse for a body, stole mom's car and crashed it for the THIRD time, hope some other P.O.S. takes them out for good, won't be missed ever, better world without them, lo-life theif, tweaker, bum, in that neighborhood. Area has smart camera recognition that alerts local police, county sherrif's, private security, if your car isn't worth 130,000$
@AshesAshes44 neither has defending police, BLM terrorist attacks, or this current administration.
My grandfather and grandmother came from Ireland to the 5 pts in 1905. He got shot in a bar in the 5pts. My dad was born in 1910 and I know life was very hard. Large Irish Catholic family. But he became a teamster ( I remember when the drivers would strike.)
We had a large apt and small country home in Conn and my bro and I went to 12 yrs of Catholic School.
He lived a good life.
WOW! These photos are incredible.
Modern day NY is every rat’s dream opportunity. I can’t imagine 100 years ago before plumbing, ventilation, cleaning solutions, or pressure washers!
Truth
16:29, that Shillelagh is almost as big as him, bless his tough heart. ❤
What Shillelagh? That's a old double barrel shot gun. Have a look back at it.
Love the pics and old 'moving pictures' snippets. The narrative describes well what many ancestors before us have told us....
Glad you enjoyed the presentation! Thank you.
Love history thx for something so entertaining 😎
You're welcome. Glad you liked it.
Theres a great book that details this slum. A john jakes book called the American. Its part of the kent family chronicles. The entire series is a must read.
Read it ,Excellent
Adventurous travellers know these kinda places still exist. This is an awesome video, great narration too 🧡
Love your vid 👍
Much appreciated!
Love information like this. New subscriber.
Thank you. Welcome to the channel!
I was born and raised on the Lower East side of NY. My family lived there in the 40s We lived there until 1977. It was then and still is
A rough neighborhood. In order to survive you HAD to be a good fighter or else!!! I grew up with a group of guys who were the Bowery boys. We all did things we won’t do now however, back then we did what we had to do.
My first experience with cocaine was on the LES. Smh
Grew up in alphabet city. Was violent but fun. I’m rich now but I’ll never forget those days.
I really enjoyed watching 'The Bend '...
That’s great! Glad the history is interesting.
Incredible video. Bravo!
Thank you very much! Glad the history interests you.
Amazing storytelling. I think I would have enjoyed history lessons more if we watched these videos.
Thank you! Lots more like this on my channel.
"He carried a shelaighlie, possibly to be used as a club!"
Ummmm, yeah, probably. It is literally an irish style club. Thats what it is for......
Posh people, I swear...
Happy Sunday & Thanks F.F.❤
Have a great day Lana!
@@FactFeast Ty you too😊
I have heard somewhere that the apartment on the honeymooners was based on Jackie Gleeson's experience as a boy in the early 1900's in a New York city tenement slum apartment.
Yes it's true 👍🏾
dang he was a good actor...acting like a southern redneck...
The migrants then didn't come with a hand out, they wanted the opportunity. They struggled with life itself.
There was no welfare but there sure asl was the homestead act, pretty major to me 😂
@@AaronClingman-ll6vo"40 acres and a mule" turned out to be just another scam when you look into the history of it
I've watched this video 3 times in the last week. I'm fascinated by the videos of life back then. I can't stop watching it. 😂
Fantastic! Nice to know it’s interesting history.
Now no more tenements, just poor folks living in cars, tent cities, or on the streets.
One thing that stands out for me is how vulnerable children were living under those conditions of poverty. It has me wondering how bad the predator problem was, given all those vulnerable children. They were in great need of food, hygiene, hope, protection ... and that's not the entire list of things lacking that a predator will try to exploit and manipulate children with. Human trafficking? Child trafficking? We may never know how bad it was if records were destroyed or those crimes were not always documented. But it's clear the conditions children were living in made them prime targets of those who looked for opportunities to exploit them.
Children were exploited horribly, but so were the adults - those who'd arrived a few years ago from The Old Country were happy to exploit the next group of greenhorns who trusted them.
Read about Albert Fish
Child predation is worse now.
I mean Mary was like 12 when God knocked her up. Kinda gross.
I think that may be why my granny was so protective of us .they don't forget
I love that relatively rich people walk into and commentate upon poor people. Imagine people from prosperous countries talking like that today if they went into the slums of say, the Philippines? They'd be cancelled and subject to utter derision. Kind of rightly so too. Keep up the great content!
27:02
we had to stop allowing so much mass immigration, in order to put a stop to this. people can' t just randomly come here with nothing, it doesn't work.
My grandmother's family landed there in 1913 and moved to Brooklyn later. Many families moved thru lower NYC before setting roots.
This channel is Gold ❤
Thank you! Glad you’re interested in this history.
This is where my people ended up. They never forgot. Stories handed on year after year.
11:57 dude in the upper left is an early photobomber. He was definitely the comedic relief in his circle.
The description of salami “ big awkward sausages, hanging “ lol
People need to take into account that these narrator's descriptions of what they saw came with biases. Like the way they described produce and bread being sold by Italians as queer and oddly shaped. That's really just xenophobia and classism and unfamiliarity with what they're looking at. The bread looked good.
I grew up in Bermondsey, South London in the forties and fifties and conditions weren't that much better
My father was born in Bradford in ghe mid 20's. Times were seriously tough. He went to work "down t'mill" at 12 years old.
4:16... the Bowery comes from the old french Bouverie "place for the oxen (bœufs-> bouverie) " i don't know if this was imported from London ( there is a bowery in stoke newington ) or directly from france too....
Interesting! Good to know. I hadn't heard of such a place in London.
@@FactFeast my mistake! (0r the small alley i remember doesn't exist anymore) There is a BOUVERIE rd in london!!!!
Yep, there's a Bouverie Road in Stoke Newington, and runs alongside Abney Park. It's off Manor Road if I remember rightly. I used to get taken to play in the paddling pool in Clissold Park as a kid. Happy days 😊.
Good grief. In perspective, NYC has been and will always be a xenobobe’s nightmare. Just change the country of origin every 30 yrs or so…
But it’s also a testament that every community rose up to the challenges, overcame adversity, and moved on. NYC is a survivor’s land and will continue to be. 🇺🇸
How is procreation even on the minds of people during this Hell? Aside from not being able to house and feed the ones you already have, how do two people that must reek of a foulness I can't even imagine have sex? Someone PLEASE do a doc on that.
I've offen wondered about that.
I’ve seen the highs and lows of housing so I’ll give you some insight.
My last apts were income based town homes that also accepted section 8 (the devil). In a matter of 3mos what was a nice, affordable place to live became the hood. They came in with a bunch of kids and no job and did nothing all day long but lay up with their loser boyfriends. Now they have no car, no job, unit a mess, their lives are a mess but you can guarantee they’re going to have a warm body in bed!! Their kids could be dirty, not going to school, out all night they did not care. They had absolutely nothing to look forward to but the one thing that’s free: sex.
Contrast that to my new apts on the other side of town. Come 5-6am there are hardly any cars in the lot because everyone is at WORK!!! The only ppl here during the day are wfh ppl like myself or older couples. When school lets out they don’t send their kids outside to play all night and make a ruckus. The kids here walk the dog and play for a bit (in front of their own unit) then they are back inside I’m sure for chores and homework.
At my last apts every weekend was a party. I had never seen ppl have so much company. I grew up being taught you don’t have ppl over if your house is a mess, you have no food etc they didn’t care nor did their company. They would all just pile in the garage talking loud all night like they had no dwelling to go inside of. New apts the weekends are just as quiet as during the week. The singles have a life, the young couples work a lot it seems, young families are always gone and the elderly have a church van to take them out. Everyone over here is just regular but it’s so nice.
I guarantee you most of the ppl in my new apts have like half the sex the ppl at my old apts do because 1) they have jobs 2) they actually raise their kids 3) want more out of life … I can’t be in the mood for a damn thing when I’m broke much less looking at an even broker man but some ppl really do not care. Back then was diff but you have ppl in 2023 still living like that by choice.
That’s why rent is so high and you have to jump through hoops to get in trying to keep the trash out. And I’ll tell you something else race doesn’t even matter because my old apts had blk/white/Indian/Hispanic and poverty brought out the ugly in all of them. New apts are more white not gonna lie but you have a little color sprinkled in. I don’t even care as long as they’re clean and quiet.
But ya that’s my little 2 cents I’ve lived in apts my whole life some better than others and I am telling you broke ppl love to screw. I get off more on a new purse but hey that’s just me.
@@ivycarrano8207likewise haha.
Alcohol 😂
Basic biology
Italians living cheek-by-jowl with the Irish in crowded, horrible poverty; what other than the obvious mayhem could happen there?
History is repeating itself as we are reliving these Good Ole Days with the huge amount of poor homeless and uncontrolled influx of migrants unabled to be housed.
Unabled to be house 😮
Fantastic footage.
Glad you liked it!
Can you imagine all the families in this present age that have inherited wealth from their slumlord ancestors?
They all eventually assimilated and learned English. There children and especially their grandchildren found the American dream ?
What a difference then today
I am old enough to remember as a kid the old wood Tenement buildings from the 1800’s, we lived in two of them, 3 story rental’s in Boston.
3 small rooms, Kitchen, Living Room served as bedroom also, one smaller bedroom for my parents, one toilet in a closet in parents bedroom.
One bathtub in the building on the second floor in a small room in the hallway. Cast Iron kitchen stove converted to Kerosene.
No central heat in the building, the cast iron stove oven was our apartment heat.
I remember the rag man pushing his spoked wheel cart picking up rags in the neighborhood to sell.
Vegetable and fruit carts. One of the old wooden ghetto’s burned to the ground, enormous 5 alarm fire.
Today my old neighborhood is unrecognizable except one huge ‘’OLD’’ factory turned into condos.
Today you can see those old tenements in old photos posted on YT. Life inside the Ghetto’s back then like I grew up in as a kid.
5:06 "the optimists at the health department" lol
How are you doing sir. Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Honestly with every new video you posted we learn new vocabularies and new information. First of all I looked up for meaning of bandit is armed thief ( in order use ) one who attacks people while they are traveling. Synonyms gangster , outlaw , crook . Bandit roost 59/ 2 mulberry street . In early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis documenting living conditions in New York slums in 1880s . How other half lives studies among tenements of New York . The photography taken in “ bend “ dangerous and poor alley in mulberry street newyork city that no longer exist . Bend was core of city tenement slums known for crime ridden populations of mostly Italian origin . Riis social activism in pursuit of better life conditions for poorest classes of New York where picture was published one of best examples was one of factors that led to demolition of mulberry bend which was later replaced by park . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information. Good luck to you your dearest ones .
Seeing this reminds me of my neighbors' yards. They can't pick up a thing; their trash piles just grow and grow. To see them on the street they look clean enough, but their properties! I'm waiting to see a commode on somebody's front porch.
I got a commode specifically for yard decor because my neighbors pissed me off with all their shenanigans and loud music starting at around 4 am and going all through the day and until midnight or later. Thankfully they've moved away. I was out there every day sweeping and picking up the trash other people littered until they moved in and then someone called the city on me for growing vegetable plants in buckets. The city was absolutely horrible to deal with and my health has gone downhill majorly so idgaf anymore.
So you guys live In newyork right?so nothing has changed.
@@ContactsNfilters u r hilarious a commode for yard decide..
In Oklahoma people use toilets in their yards for decoration. And you will see recliners on front porches
The series COPPERS on Amazon Prime highlights the time period and 4 Points. It’s excellent.
I'm subscribing 💙
Welcome to the channel!
Even though Men & Women could barely feed themselves and lived in small squalid rooms they had no problem producing more and more Children that they could not properly care for.
Basic biology, people, especially men , have an urge to mate and they didn't have any technology to distract them and not much of other forms of entertainment
Contraception was probably not very common in those days and I don’t think they had planned parenthood then either 😂
Poor people have more children than middle class
0:19 they were not mostly Italian. The largest demographic was Irish, then Italian, then Slavic.
My great great grandfather lived on Elizabeth Street in the 1890s. He came over from Sicily. He would eventually move the family to Brooklyn.
This Guy is The BEST narrator For dark And horrible History
Much appreciated!
this was pretty good......
Every time he said "IN THE BEND!" after a set of sentences, it just sounded like a long/epic poem
Good stuff
Glad you enjoyed!
actually, The Bend has been reopened along with Collect Pond (though artificial pond instead of the natural spring it originally was)... you can still find dubious "kosher" dirty water franks on the block😅
Our most famous Italian and Irish gangs started here
all in the same spot that a beautiful 40 acre natural spring fed pond was that was used for many yrs for fishing and ice-skating and even was the source of NYC's first water supply, Collect Pond, impossible to imagine it ever existed today
Dead Rabbits.
We had "Fresh Air" kids upstate in the 60's.
Good grief. How'd that work out?
As bad as the housing was where were the tenants supposed to go when their homes were demolished?
Martin Scorsese's "GANGS OF NEW YORK" MOVIE depicts Civil War-era 5 Points...the movie, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio was spellbindingly brutal depiction of life in the 5 Points. Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall figure strongly.
It wasn't the Civil War era. It was the Revolutionary War era.
@@swannoir7949it was absolutely civil war era in the movie. The Irish coming into the US were immediately made to enlist in the Union Army and sent off to war. They even talk about Lincoln in the movie and an actor is depicted impersonating him on stage getting pummeled with rotten produce. Watch the movie again.
Great Movie
Everyone loves to tell the story of their great grand pappy coming to America with a nickel in his pocket but then they're so confused and upset by current immigration.
@004bop No. They didn't. They created Little Italys and South Boston and Chinatowns and Brooklyn and most never left their neighborhoods. They would continue to speak their native language, eat native foods, and practice their native religion.
But maybe a few kids would leave of the next generation. Then a few of the next. And the next and so on. To the point that now people are mad they sleeping with their daughter.
Have you visited a major metropolitan city in the US?
They came in LEGALLY Big Difference
@@MichaelGloth-f7j Grow up!!!
Hate to bust your bubble but in New York back then they hated them way more then now days
@@portlandsamber Big difference between Ellis island and sneaking in illegally with support from a drug and human trafficking cartel.
That's how we lived in Greenwich Village. There are so many restaurants and bars downtown, because nobody can stay in their hot, tiny apartments. In the summer, the streets are swarming with people. The cops are on horses, because thr cars can't get through.
It's not a slum anymore. I was there a few months ago. It's a busy metropolitan area. Coffee shops, benches, restaurants and you would never know the history if you didn't know it
So horrible The living conditions in their time Five 📌 points NYC really had a notorious rep my great 👵 granny landed in Boston Massachusetts 🚢 she was newly off the boat from county Clare Ireland🇮🇪☘️ and Poor .
Most of these “investigate reporters/journalists” that penned these creepy and dehumanizing articles come off as far less human or deserving of respect than any of the working class people they wrote about so viciously. Half of these videos tick me off, just the way that the original writer speaks with such degrading terms about these people. Of course things were dirty, most of these people immigrated here with little more than pennies leftover after buying their ship fare, with no indoor plumbing, not even so much as a damn bathtub to share dingy bathwater in. They made do with what they had. Doesn’t mean they were animals. Makes me hate the reporters that wrote these things
There were muckrakers that tried to help them by exposing these slums. New tenements were designed. Somewhat better for the time being.
Stories like this are where most of the negative Italian stereotypes come from. The way hes describing these people without any context just pisses me off. My maternal grandparents emigrated from Italy about 1930 and my cousins were still dealing with this crap in the 80s.
What shocked me was the ad in the window for an opera and amber bead necklace .
Many Italians, poor or not, loved and sang opera.
Recommendation: 'down and out in Paris and London,' by George Orwell
I 💚this channel
I’m very glad you do 😊 Thanks for your support Lynne!
@@FactFeast your my favourite vicorian/Edwardian channel..And the man who tells the storys his voice is perfiction artwork and photos and I love the new colouring your doing now...I always must watch and keep in my vault..Thankyou for takeing time to always show the common foke💚👌🤩
🏆. Well Researched, Organized & Presented. Kudos. 👴🏽NoBody🎞️s.
Nothing has changed. Today we have homeless encampments in every city.
Nothing like that though.
sheet@@eamonnmaccionnaith5761
I call this "The Good Old Days Were Terrible Channel."
I'm sure you've read the book.
@FactFeast Yes. I believe it to be one of the most important books I've read in the last 20 years, as, like your channel, it exposes the fallacy of "false nostalgia" for a "simpler time." Your channel makes it clear that if you live in a G10 country today, even poor people live better than 99% of all other humans, ever. Imagine what the citizens of lower Manhattan 120 years ago would say if they were told that one day, NYC would have "an epidemic of obesity."
When the term " Spoiled Child " wasn't even thought of ! Very horrible times !😢😮
Is the 5 points the area in Gangs of New York?
Yes, the same Five Points as the movie though a few decades later.
"Carrying a shelaiglie possibly as use as a club?"a club is what it is no other use
This was great. Sub’d
Thank you and welcome!
New York is heading back to this
Not even close
The condition some have to live in is almost the same. Just a different era.