How the Progressive Era Changed Poverty and Homelessness in New York City
A City of Stark Numbers In 1890, a Danish immigrant turned police reporter named Jacob Riis calculated that more than […]
The History of Poverty and Homelessness in Nineteenth-Century New York City (1800–1900)
A City Built on Extremes In 1850, on a single block in Manhattan’s Sixth Ward, more than three hundred people
When the Streets Became Home: Why Homelessness Rose Dramatically in the 1980s
The Morning of January 22, 1982. At 5:47 in the morning, a sanitation worker named Ruben Torres arrived for his
When the Towers Fell, the Safety Net Frayed: Poverty in New York City After 9/11
On the morning of September 11, 2001, a man named Raymond Brown was sorting through a bin of donated clothes