New York's Slums of Shadow (Hell under Brooklyn Bridge in the 1800s)
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- Brooklyn Bridge condemned many New Yorkers to a life in darkness. It's construction improved transport between Manhattan and Long Island and brought economic benefits for New York, but, for some it made living conditions (that were already terrible), much worse. In this documentary eyewitness account from the late 1880s discover how, with natural light shut out, residents struggled to afford the fuel to light their work. Amongst filth and fetid air, women toiled endlessly, either at garment making (by night under the gas light of the street) or any work they could find, whilst their husbands worked (if they weren't in a saloon) as long-shore-men at the docks.
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CC BY - A wife asking her drunkard husband when will you get rid of the alcohol, On private action in respect of common lodging houses by Wellcome Collection
CC BY-SA - Brooklyn bridge tickets by By Lionel Martinez; Sewing demonstration of with a 1894 sewing machine by Pannini
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Poor people. I thank God every night for my warm dry bed. Thank you for the reminder that although things are hard in the U.K now, they were much worse then.❤
Bless you. Here one minute gone the next, it happens out of blue sometimes. Speaking from experience it’s tough not knowing where your next dollar is gonna come from or trying to sleep in the excessive heat or cold among many other issues.
Theres no reason for so many people around the world to be living in extreme poverty in 2024 except that evil people are in control.
Yes, I was one of the blessed ones and then suddenly I was not. I will never fail to appreciate buying groceries and being able to cook a nice meal. I can't imagine working so hard for so little and no hope for better.
The really sad thing is that this kind of poverty still exists in places like India and parts of Africa. Before you go to sleep in your warm, dry bed tonight, say a prayer for them.
Instead of just being thankful for breadcrumbs, maybe we need to to fight those at the top boarding the wealth. Im tired of hearing of people being grateful for barely scraping by while the rich take advantage of us.
which is funny b/c this area under the Brooklyn Bridge is now some of the most expensive real estate in NYC LOL.
Absolutely Depressing..We are struggling but nothing like this.😮
Whenever I visit New York City, I take the opportunity to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. This never occurred to me. Poor souls.
Unfortunately my Grandmother was born in one of the Brooklyn Tenements in 1898. Her family would go to Coney Island to cool off from the brutal tenement heat! 😮😮
I can barely imagine.
How old are you
My grandpa grew up in hells kitchen I guess it felt like an oven lol
My grandfather was born in 1898 too, but in the Lanes in Cork City Ireland. It was a hard life for them. I was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, NY. The apartment building my father grew up living in, in Brooklyn, had no heat until 1956. My grandmother lived in that same apartment until she died peacefully in her bed at 93 years of age.
@@jodygrulich8695he probably meant great grandma. Otherwise that would put him at 90 or 100
Thank you for another terrifying peek behind the curtain of poverty. Your narration in incredible.
Thanks for listening! 😊
We are coming back to this. Mark my words.
Worse in some ways. They executed criminals back then and sent them to long sentences.
Yep
Especially horse droppings on the streets
Agreed
@@jodygrulich8695there won't be horses after we eat them all to prevent starvation.
Is there any information on the work houses like in Detroit in the 1930s. My dad lived in one would love to know more?
Sounds like an interesting topic. I’ll lookout for it in my research. Thank you.
Oooh that’s a good one. Would definitely be interested in that one (I live across that river!)
My family were Irish immigrants who settled in Corktown, Detroit’s oldest neighborhood. They came to Detroit so they didn’t have to go to the tenements in New York or Boston. I know there were work houses but don’t know a lot about them, I would like to learn more as well.
What made them choose Detroit may i ask? @@djquinn11
By the time I came up in the bottom (90s) In Detroit, wasn't NOOOOO Irish. Lol. Dexter and Joy road ....it's only one race among the bricks where I'm from. #Collingwood
You have such wonderful videos
Thank you! Glad you’re interested in this era of history.
The visuals are amazingly helpful . Brutal times...
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Fascinating topic as always Fact Feast. Thank you for all the work that goes into this channel. Hello from British Columbia Canada ❤
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Last part of my research between 1869 to 1883 several thousand or laborers and engineers worked above . Many of laborers were immigrants from Ireland, Germany, Italy, most worked for daily wages of 2, 000 to 2, 25 dollars. New York City increased transformed Brooklyn into brough , New York and increased population, from 58 , 000 inhabitants to 1 million over 15 years since Brooklyn bridge opened. Facts about Brooklyn bridge it’s 3 rd largest city in America larger than Boston, Atlanta, Washington DC , Minneapolis combined. It’s home of 2 nd largest black population of any city in North America. Over 1/3 residents were born in another country. Nearly 1 in 5 of Brooklyn residents live in poverty. Brooklyn bridge called great east river suspense bridge . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .
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That’s where my ancestors came from, LES in the 1850’s and 1880’s through WWII.
New here. Good video. I have recently moved unto a home that is in an area surrounded by blocks of old cemetarirs. I was amazed at the numbers of tiny little gravestones and markers for infants and the very young, many in the same family with multiple deaths within a year or so of each babe. 3 in 3 years all named after the mother. Hundreds upon hundreds of graves for wee ones ( possinly thousands). The ones directly across the street are dated early 1900's ( like 1910 etc) but I think these cemeteries date back to the 1800' s. P s. Nothing is new under the sun.. I am thinking of poor little Fantine and her mother in Les Miserables. ( Rather Fantin and daughter Cosette)
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......and we complain when the ice cream machine is down at McDonald's...
slow internet
Great video, thank you for making this content. Can you do some on Australian convicts one day?
Good idea! It’s on my mind for the future.
Love ya FF. Awesome as usual my bud
Always much appreciated 😊
3:01 "Bringing the past alive". If only people stopped turning tomorrow into yesterday. :(
Those poor women and ofcourse it was their fault. Unfortunately we are heading back that way.
Poverty doesn't discriminate against men or women.
Dont be that person!
nonsense
@@RhysapGrug she means women are blamed when they are r*ped.
@@fredengels8188 we most certainly are. losing reproductive rights is barbaric.
Poppycock
Looks like large parts if NYC today, just missing all the corporate logo's on buildings
My family got off the boat in 1858 and lived at 25 Walworth Street in Brooklyn. I have a 2nd great uncle who fell to his death building the bridge. My family has strong roots in Ft Greene.
The british voice narrating this should know and remember the prisons and the unfair treatment in england at the time
I always think of Angela's ashes
Fantastic as always, amazing images, but so sad.
Thank you mamasinger!
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your Super Thanks! 😊
another monumentally ventacular-spectacular upload ヅ
Thank you the birthday skeleton!
My great-grandfather was a sailor who traveled around the world but kept an address at South Street when he was home in around 1900. I took my kids to the seaport a few years ago to see the ships and neighborhood but this is a view we didn’t get. Thanks!
Interesting. Thanks for watching!
Im obsessed with traveling back in time to certain eras of New York City. It would be fascinating to go back in time and walk the streets and see first hand what NYC was like in it's early stages of development.
Wait... you're telling me homeless people existed before the 21st century?
Thank you 👍😊
Hiya Fact Feast, I liked this vlog, have you noticed all the slums were around the dock areas, your voice fits the vlog, this is Paul (aka Choppy) in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Great pics and info TY
Glad you like them! Thank you.
We all know what was happening in those times to our children. Now we can try to fix it. Don't give up or give in. Our children deserve better. Peace be with you. Together we stand. Divided we fall. 😢
Imagine moving to America with nothing and thinking that you're life is going to be better and then you just end up living in crazy poverty.
My whole family is from NYC and NJ but didnt really know this story
Crowded rooms and pursuit of employment was the worldwide norm for the majority of all those not endowed with family wealth. While the narrative is beautifully spoken, it would be educational to list some of the events and laws that enabled people to eventually live better and more informed lives.
Those poor women had to go through hell especially the ones with the drunk husbands
Or by choice. The voice of the future. May God bless us all in his house.❤😊
We were one people then, there was hardship but there was a lot more unity and sense of nationality.
a lot of unity during the civil war draft riots in new york.
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Back to New York! This'll be good! (But that goes without saying)
Cheers! It’s quite something just how monumental the bridge was on the Manhattan skyline following completion.
Thanks ff
You’re very welcome clarencedavisiii.
The rich throughout history had what holds us all back. They are trying again. I hope people wake up before we revert back further.
Incredible
Ive lived in some real dumps before but jeez Louise this makes those places look like Central Park West
The past is still alive only difference is light, camera and no actions to fix poverty for working people ever we still lives in it 😢😢look around lots of homelessness taking over working family i used t work 7days a week 💞 and sickness my disability less than my rent
Someone might say you'd better go and get a skill that let you sit down all day and do nothing but sign your name on some document or another. You can get a skill. I had a skill. It was flawed since I had to use the strength of my arms and legs even acting on stage. I even volunteered at the Guilford College FM station. I had when a youth wanted to be a Disc Jockey and pick the hits but then all changed and only the Station Managers were allowed to pick the hits picking what they were paid to play when before any of them got some bucks to play the records. Not that I would have taken a bribe as my taste was my reputation.
Reminds me of the Humphrey Bogart movie from the 30s Dead End
Who ever thought of it and it's height was very smart Brooklyn Bridge.
This reminds me of HP Lovecraft… “The Horror At Red Hook”.
The Scotsman husband is GOAT!! Kets see what else Christianity can do for me lol 😅
Can anyone tell me what an after diner cabinet is?
It still looks like such a n incredible city somehow
Well im glad it was constructed high enough for shipping by adults. Who else was gonna build it? Oh the orphan trains at the time. And the incubator babies **down the shore on display for what everbgodbknown reasons
No it’s one of the most expensive places in New York. Go Brooklyn.😊
Brooklyn ❤❤❤
They call it dumbo now
Besides the skyline & technology other than that NY still the same 😆
differences aside , new york remains the same....
There is always someone on the bottom in society. They have to find the latter to climb up and they did. Should they have torn down wealthy communities to build the bridge?
we really need to bring back tenement housing
Damn they needed Febreeze!!
Nothing really changed just really good to know only just good at hiding
The poor will always be with us....Jesus.😊😊
We vote so we deserve whatever we get
They were still happy to be in America. I guarantee you. Because they were free and no one was trying to kill them. Or put them in prison.
they were happy to be free in america, living their nasty, brutish, and short lives.
100% guaranteed.
Anymore stupid, jingoistic comments to add to this? No? Very good.
For a lot of poor immigrants the reality was migration to America meant going from the oven..into the oven, forget frying pans, the proverbial 'frying pan' was usually far above their means
There was usually little to no improvement and in fact often a fair bit of degrading from what they might've been used to even in their previous countries, for new arrivals to New York at the time
Many immigrant families lives only truly improved when life for humanity as a whole started to improve during the early 1900s.
Well it was built in 1883…so I’m guessing the worst of it was AFTER the 19th century!
Cherry Street
the greatest generation
Poor and Dirty, 2 different things. They were both
Mass immigration has always always made companies rich and the poor suffer.
We are once again living in those miserable hand to mouth periods and it's getting worse and worse. Young generation can't even afford a house let alone a condo. 😢
not being able to afford a condo or a home is far from living in misery.
overall, things have been improving gradually over the past centuries.
This is how the robber barons regarded the people who looked like them. But, as long as they could be convinced that their whiteness was social currency, they and their children, for generations, lived in the most abject poverty because those “ others” might benefit from reform.
We are the people of the past lol😊
People pile on Karl Marx but this is where it came from.
There was lots of sunshine in southern cotton fields .
Pretty well-fed looking for starving people - compare them to the more common North Korean soldiers working in the country sides out of view mostly..
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A big thank you Brian! 😊
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