The Unimaginable Filth in 1800s New York's Dirtiest Slum (Rag Pickers and Garbage Dumps)

Great narrator
These videos about hardship make me feel better about my messed up life. Thank you

Spellbinding narrator of such an interesting subject. Many thanks for sharing. From Ruth x

Friggin Randy's guuuuut..... it's full of dirty ol cheeseburgers

Thank God my ancestors were of German decent.

I'm gonna take a shower

Incredibly many decentants of those immigrants now claim to be the ‘white original’ Americans. The ignorance: many black and brown people have ancestry hailing centuries before these ‘new’ immigrants of the 19th century. Long story short: all Americans are immigrants…

Should have turned around and went back home.

My little Italy. Lol I am from Brooklyn. You people should come visit all are welcome.

Canada’s New York City immigration island partridge island in sj NB (by Maine) so diseased it’s under quarantine cause the soil from the bodies is so deadly with disease

I like the Italians we need more fettuccini

Get the Patty wagon

But why was it like that?

Looks like parts of our country now. Homeless people, dirt & flith. Amazing what this administration can do. Bidens idea of a great economy. Pity our children if dems stay in power.

Compare this hard life to that of the spoiled little brats of today.

😂😂😂 and Americans don’t like immigrants 😂😂😂 we should have build a wall in 1773

My Italian & Jewish people. Eventually settling on Long Island, where I still live today.

The ashes should have gone to the land as fertilizer

Padrones, that sounds bit Spanish, (patrones) but Italian and Portuguese are easier to understand by Spanish people, Now, Catalan difficult,is a different dialect even though is spoken in Spain. Castilian is spoken in Spain, which is Spanish.

Could someone explain to blacks seeking reparations that 70% of white Americans came decades after the slave abolishing. Look at these photos and ask them if they still think white people are entitled

there's still quite a bit of "unimaginable filth" in NYC today

Tip-top quality narration! I absolutely enjoy every video

The Cornish didn't stay in some stinking city.

The slums and filth are back. Just check out Philadelphia, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles...

WHY DO I FEEL I'M BEING SCOLDED

debt 38 trillion !

So let me get this straight. Italians had it worse than the Germans,polish, and Irish? Hahahaha. Regardless, we're all "white" now. Again Hahahaha.

I'm spawn of Italian grandparents and uncles. Fruit and nut vendors or professional boxers.

Not much difference now 😂

….and became citizens and never owned slaves and have no historic attachment to “white privilege” nor operate out of it. Our ancestors worked hard to make a life in this country and passed down strong values through the generations that have stuck for a great many of us who know how fortunate we are to be Americans.

i noticed youre keeping your voice down a bit sweet sir thank you

Stop. How many people in these types of pictures end up with children who are successful and living in the suburbs.

And...immigration and rats!!!!... are keep on being blamed to always current presidential nominees in the White House!!!!!...😊😂😂😊😅😂

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You mean…other skin colors had hardships?!! No way!!!

This is all the people who emigrated know. They come from generations and cultures of this type of lifestyle....

This is exactly the culture these people had in their homelands 😂 who expected different?

Our history of mistreatment of immigrants. Of abuse, exploitation and hate! Prejudice is part of our history. My family was one of those Italian families, but they came after Hitler had destroyed norther Italy. They stayed 5 months and boarded another ship to Cuba, then to Puerto Rico…were 22 grandchildren were born.
Then, of course, I had to deal with the prejudice against Latinos. Never ending insecurity, why?

Just like the temporary workers scheme that’s playing out in today’s factories.

Create a huge labor supply and keep wages low and workers in poverty. And Biden is doing it today. Wake up folks

Wow, now you can substitute those from the US border living in NYC hotels paid by taxpayers for the Italians. They’re in NYC, jobless, begging in the nyc subways, it’s horrible.

Exploiting the greenhorns was an old American tradition.

"My grandfather came to America because he heard that the streets were paved with gold.
When he arrived, he learned three things:
1. The streets were not paved with gold;
2. The streets were not paved; and
3. It was his job to pave them."
- Old Jewish Immigrant "Joke."

You know Irish people weren't even considered white when they all first got here...crazy stuff.

Having better opportunities were a hoax and those immigrants got scammed.

YOU SEEM NOT TO KNOW THE HISTORIC FACTS.
THOSE 'IMMIGRANT' SLUMS WERE ALL WHERE THE BLACK SLAVES AND FREEMEN LIVED.
BLACK PEOPLE WERE IN NEW YORK SINCE IT WAS A DUTCH COLONY, 1600'S. THEY LEVELED MOST OF SOUTHERN MANHATTAN WITH THER BARE HANDS FOR NO PAY.

THEY PHYSICALLY BUILT THE NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE 'FIVE POINTS'. AND WHEN EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION BECAME A FLOOD, THE LAND OWNERS AND POLITICIANS FORCED THE LONGTIME BLACK INHABITANTS OUT, SPLIT THE UNITS EVEN SMALLER AND MADE EVEN MORE RENT. ITALIANS DID NOT BUILD WHERE THEY WERE CRAMMED INTO, BLACK PEOPLE DID THAT OVER A CENTURY BEFORE. YOU FORCE THAT MANY OF ANYONE IN A SMALL SPACE, IT BECOMES A SLUM ANYWHERE.

BLACKS WERE THEN FORCED NORTH, INTO WHAT IS NOW THE TIMES SQUARE AREA AND THE NORTHWESTERN AREA, 'SENECA VILLAGE' WHERE CENTRAL PARK IS AND UP TOO HARLEM AS JEWISH AND GERMANS LEFT.

YOU MENTION MILLIONS OF EUROPEANS FLOODING INTO NYC, BUT YOU DIDN'T MENTION THAT MILLIONS OF BLACK PEOPLE WERE ALREADY THERE. COLONIAL NEW YORK WAS BUILT BY SLAVE LABOR. EUROPEAN IMMIGREANTS DID NOT DISEMBARK ON A EMPTY SHORE. THE WHARFS, DOCKS, CANALS, AND ELLIS ISLAND ITSELF AND MOST OTHER BUILDINGS AND THE COLONIAL INFRASTRUCTURE WAS ALREADY BUILT BEFORE IRISH, GERMAN, ITALIAN AND OTHERS CAME AND THEN DISPLACED BLACK LABORORS AND CONTINUED THE NEW YORK EXPLOITATION OF POOR PEOPLE THAT MADE IT THE CITY IT IS.
WHEN YOU SPEAK OF NEW YORK IMMIGRATION, YOU CANNOT LEAVE OUT THE CONTEXT IT EXISTED IN. THEY DID NOT CREATE THE CITY, THEY CAME TO AN EXISTING CITY THAT WAS LARGELY BUILT BY BLACK UNPAID SLAVE LABOR AND EXTREMELY UNDERPAID NATIVE NEW YORKERS!
EVERY SO-CALLEDXC IMMIGRANT SLUM WAS MADE A SLUM BY THE OVER CRFOWDING CAUSED BY CORRUPT POLITICIANS, EXPLOITIVE BUSINESS SHIPPERS AND TRADESMEN, AND BY AMERICAN RACISM THEAT ALSO EXPERIENCED BUT AT A FAR LESS DEGREE.

AND BEING LARGELY RURAL AND UNEDUCATED IN THEIR HOMELANDS, THEY WERE CONVINCED AND BRIBED TO JOIN IN THE AMERICAN RACISM AGAINST THE VERY PEOPLE WHO BUILT THE PLACE THEY HAD RUN TOO, TO GET AWAY FROM PREDUJICE AT HOME - THEY BECAME PREJUDICED HERE. A SAD HISTORY OF CULTURAL MANIPULATION.
THIS IS THE REAL HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION IN NEW YORK CITY!

Nothing new under the sun 🌞

Imagine that 😳 people have been pigs 🐖 😳 for generations.

In the 1800's there were THOUSANDS of merchants who came to NYC each & everyday
with a cart & a horse to sell their good. These merchants knew NOTHING about animals and would leave the horse or mule standing in harness all the livelong day without water, without food and it was a regular occurrence for some of these horses to drop dead from exhaustion or the heat or the cold. The merchant would unhitch the beast & walk down the street to the nearest livery stable & buy or rent another. The problem was so bad the the city of NY had to establish a dead horse dept whose job it was to drive the streets of NY and pick up dead horses.

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