46 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Turn-Of-The-Century New York’s Immigrant Slums

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“Bandit’s Roost,” a notorious hangout for the criminal element at 59 Mulberry Street in Little Italy, 1888. At the time, the area was among the most impoverished and crime-ridden in the entire city.

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Pike and Henry Streets in the Lower East Side, with the Manhattan Bridge looming in the background, 1936.

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