When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, New York City’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of American tenement life. At one point, almost three hundred thousand people were ...
Financier John Jacob Astor III, 67, grandson of Astoria’s founder, died unexpectedly on Feb. 22, 1890, in New York, of heart ...
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