New York Tenements in the 1920’s and 1930’s

Photographs

People spending time in the street

A stairway in a tenement building

Tenement building (remember – no elevators…)

Corner grocery store

Sitting on the stoop

Hanging the laundry outside

An apartment interior

People slept on the roof because the apartments were so hot in the summer

A typical backyard with laundry lines

Shopping on the street

Shopping on the street