Street Peddlers gifts-over-100 The city was marking the

The city was marking the 200th anniversary of the 1811 plan that created a grid system for the city

A train bound for Edinburgh

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Street Peddlers gifts-over-100 The city was marking theAt the turn of the century, the Lower East Side was the first stop in America for European immigrants struggling to start a new life. The tenement lined streets, rather than being paved with gold, were filled with peddlers, noise, dirt and poverty, as evident in this circa 1915 photograph. Immigrants lived in the miserable conditions cramped, decrepit tenement apartments with little space, ventilation, or light, and no heat or plumbing. As an escape,