Survival in New York's brutal FIVE POINTS Slum (The Bend on Mulberry Street)

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  • @FactFeast
    @FactFeast  Рік тому +95

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    • @bustedupgrunt1177
      @bustedupgrunt1177 Рік тому +1

      Where Irish and Italian were coddled, clearly living in the lap of white privilege luxury back then while poor Black neighbors suffered. Reparations due.

    • @jamesvinch2484
      @jamesvinch2484 Рік тому +1

      Or ny, already is

    • @shelbeepollino9008
      @shelbeepollino9008 Рік тому +2

      Do you know the name of the painting at 2:06, the woman holding onto the two girls and talking to the man?

    • @MrsCraigJrPhiladelphia
      @MrsCraigJrPhiladelphia Рік тому +3

      THANK YOU SIR

    • @frankgraham1996
      @frankgraham1996 Рік тому

      And now NYC is returning to become the same filled with illegal immigrants.

  • @japanvintagecamera8869
    @japanvintagecamera8869 8 місяців тому +106

    The Five Points was a stepping stone to better lives in other parts of America. The first arrivals had it the worst, their kids and grandkids were better off. My grandfather was one of 12 children, all of whom were sent to work in factories from the age of 7, not to mention the work of his father. The factory paid them, provided one meal per day, and had classes which taught the kids to read, write, and do basic math. The combined labor of the entire family allowed them to buy a farm in Pennsylvania, and their farm prospered. It still exists today. My grandfather, one of the youngest, hated farm life, and ran away from home at 14 to enlist in the US Army as a Cavalryman (almost half of the old Cavalry was Irish). The Army knew he wasn't old enough, but couldn't prove it, so they put him through hell to scare him off, but he toughed it out, becoming a horse soldier at the ripe age of 15. The people of those days were a made of sterner stuff than today.

    • @danaleanne38
      @danaleanne38 7 місяців тому +2

      Yes, and they were Irish

    • @CadDrafting
      @CadDrafting 6 місяців тому +1

      @@danaleanne38 my grandfather went to Penn too as a coal miner and left as a boxer

    • @gerardfenn3988
      @gerardfenn3988 6 місяців тому +2

      @@danaleanne38 Yes and Scottish but both could be the same. I'm a baby boomer from the old neighborhood. Clinton Hill in Brooklyn. You never forget your roots if your from NYC.

    • @Godshonestruth
      @Godshonestruth 4 місяці тому +7

      This is why not everyone deserves a trophy and we are NOT equal. Your grandfather was a man of courage and work ethic. Choices 😊

    • @helbitkelbit1790
      @helbitkelbit1790 4 місяці тому +2

      God bless your grandfather

  • @poundsign9731
    @poundsign9731 Рік тому +185

    I love how UA-cam has more interesting stuff than I can find on the actual history channel

    • @AshleySpeaks09
      @AshleySpeaks09 Рік тому +1

      This!

    • @EmmaQuigley-s5k
      @EmmaQuigley-s5k 10 місяців тому +9

      Or any TV subscription app 👌👌 I watch nothing but UA-cam and I've never ever not once struggled to find something new to watch 🤗🤗

    • @Christopherogley
      @Christopherogley 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@EmmaQuigley-s5kI don't watch the big box anymore.... UA-cam is the TV of the poor,disposessed and the underclass....if it wasn't for this they wouldn't have ANY MEDIA .at all ...long may it continue....independent information......

    • @Christopherogley
      @Christopherogley 5 місяців тому

      @@poundsign9731 correct 💯

    • @XxowendanxX
      @XxowendanxX 3 місяці тому

      ​@Christopherogley the poor dispossessed underclass own computers or cell phones? 😂

  • @StephLyons-s7e
    @StephLyons-s7e 11 місяців тому +95

    I live in the lower east side and I'm 1 of probably 10 Irish people who still live in the neighborhood. My family came to NYC during the famine and never left.

    • @wordcel
      @wordcel 9 місяців тому +7

      Wow, your family has been in the lower east side the entire time?

    • @DanORiley
      @DanORiley 8 місяців тому +5

      I guess I was lucky my Irish famine ancestors came thru Canada and farming before crossing the river to Detroit 1890s and Grand Rapids MI 1850s set us on a path to Middle Class lifestyle! It was easier to emigrate to Canada as it at the time was part of British Commonwealth!

    • @jakedefenbaugh603
      @jakedefenbaugh603 8 місяців тому +2

      That’s pretty cool

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 8 місяців тому +1

      That’s amazing. Hopefully your property value has skyrocketed!

    • @AyeAye-Ron
      @AyeAye-Ron 7 місяців тому

      You never left LES/Alphabet city?!

  • @sunrayrosin7181
    @sunrayrosin7181 Рік тому +73

    My Grandparents and mother and her siblings all lived in the Lower East side. My Grandfather had a push cart in the Essex Street market up unto the 1970’s. I am a product of those dirty streets and Mulberry Street is always special to me.

    • @sunrayrosin7181
      @sunrayrosin7181 Рік тому +16

      I always stay humble because I respect my roots on those immigrant ships, sweat shops and people who would not quit. Hard work! When my Grandfather finally died, he had over 3 million in investments and savings. He never gambled and he supported his children and loved his grandchildren and great grandchildren. His struggles made me stronger. I work as a plumber because I value the contribution I make more then the money I earn for my service.

    • @huskymom234
      @huskymom234 Рік тому +11

      I came from both the Irish and Italian of NYC. That was our home - we worked our way out of it as did all the immigrant groups who came out of the same places.

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 Рік тому +4

      My family is from the Westside. Hells Kitchen I believe. They had that crazy accent. Toilet and Boil=Terlet and Burl

  • @j.b.3825
    @j.b.3825 Рік тому +94

    The Mulberry “Bend” still exists. The neighborhood is now part of Chinatown. The tenement buildings on the east side of Mulberry Bend are still there and the west side of the street is now Columbus Park. The park extends south to Worth Street, encompassing the former Five Points intersection.

    • @dondamon4669
      @dondamon4669 Рік тому +2

      No it's not!

    • @springsummerwinterorfall
      @springsummerwinterorfall Рік тому +2

      I love the slums people are real they don’t play any games

    • @springsummerwinterorfall
      @springsummerwinterorfall Рік тому

      @@dondamon4669 get a life

    • @fleadoggreen9062
      @fleadoggreen9062 9 місяців тому +1

      @@springsummerwinterorfall I hear it’s cheap rent ? You should move there and marry someone from there 😊

    • @kathleenferguson3296
      @kathleenferguson3296 8 місяців тому +4

      ​@@fleadoggreen9062 No, it's not. Some of the most expensive real estate in the City. Now.

  • @leejones8977
    @leejones8977 Рік тому +38

    I'm forever fascinated with NYC.

  • @MELANIE2571
    @MELANIE2571 Рік тому +55

    Just discovered you. Wow. What an absolute treat. Fantastic narration ,so poetic and descriptive . The old photos are still so clear after over 100 years and portray the plight of these people so poignantly. So glad I found you.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +6

      Thank you and welcome to the channel! You will find more videos like this on the channel page.

  • @mickeyfeatherstone7738
    @mickeyfeatherstone7738 Рік тому +30

    My Grandfather and uncle used to live in Manhattan in the 1920s. They still had tents in Central Park.

    • @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul
      @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 10 місяців тому

      They have tents in Central Park now, and on the sidewalks.

    • @kawaiiafangirl
      @kawaiiafangirl 3 місяці тому

      Yeah. I think the West Side of Central Park had a lot of squatters. It got worse during the Great Depression.

  • @georgestreicher252
    @georgestreicher252 Рік тому +9

    Now one of the better neighborhoods in NYC. Slept overnight in my father's shop on Baxter Street in the 1960's. Couldn't get any sleep as a drunk Italian neighbor practiced his opera singing no doubt fantasizing, he was Caruso. One of the reasons the subway system was built was to reduce the congestion in lower Manhattan.

  • @probablecauzz7038
    @probablecauzz7038 Рік тому +33

    I so look forward to your new posts, your stories and your narrative style are always so enjoyable. Thank you for all you put into your channel.
    Much respect from Maine, US.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +4

      It's really nice to hear from a regular viewer and know that the videos are worthwhile. Thank you so much for writing.

    • @SaraM152
      @SaraM152 Рік тому

      Ck t

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 4 місяці тому +4

    Thank you sooo much. I have been looking for ages to find documentaries about real people. Everything is about the rich and well off!! There were more of us than them!! - as there are now - and they couldn’t give a dam-!! At least, most of the working poor don’t live as horribly as that anymore.

  • @jjwhy321y3
    @jjwhy321y3 Рік тому +19

    How bad were conditions in other countries, when someone says 'pack ur bags kids, we're moving to blood alley!'

  • @moondancer4660
    @moondancer4660 Рік тому +22

    I've been watching this channel since the very first episode and I never miss one!!😊

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +5

      You’re a ⭐️ moondancer. I’m lucky to have your support 😊

  • @tiffinyharrington9307
    @tiffinyharrington9307 Рік тому +8

    My 3rd great grandfather John Mulrooney stayed at 74 1/2 Mulberry St. when he arrived from Ireland. It’s now part of Chinatown.

  • @smilinkylen5621
    @smilinkylen5621 2 місяці тому +1

    Adventurous travellers know these kinda places still exist. This is an awesome video, great narration too 🧡

  • @sybil.369
    @sybil.369 Рік тому +40

    Brilliant indeed, what a terrible hard life those poor people went through....

    • @Celtopia
      @Celtopia 11 місяців тому +1

      For them it was just normality, they had no experience or expectations of anything different....

    • @boneytony5041
      @boneytony5041 6 місяців тому

      @@CeltopiaMany of them missed their homes, ruined by colonialism.

  • @lauragallagher8659
    @lauragallagher8659 6 місяців тому +3

    My grandfather and grandmother came from Ireland to the 5 pts in 1905. He got shot in a bar in the 5pts. My dad was born in 1910 and I know life was very hard. Large Irish Catholic family. But he became a teamster ( I remember when the drivers would strike.)
    We had a large apt and small country home in Conn and my bro and I went to 12 yrs of Catholic School.
    He lived a good life.

  • @Deeplycloseted435
    @Deeplycloseted435 Рік тому +4

    WOW! These photos are incredible.

  • @theobessiris9681
    @theobessiris9681 Рік тому +17

    Wow!!! I just found your UA-cam site and subscribed within seconds of seeing your content. I was always fascinated by the Victorian and Edwardian periods and criminal elements of that era. I have seen videos scattered about on various websites but nothing as detailed as yours. Great stuff, and keep those videos coming!!!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      Thank you and welcome to the channel! Lots more to come 🙂

  • @robertturcotte1616
    @robertturcotte1616 Рік тому +219

    It's so tragic that these poor people came to America for a better life and landed up living in the same conditions they left or worse...

    • @Gecko....
      @Gecko.... Рік тому

      For a time but they quickly moved up, to be replaced by the next crop of immigrants. That's how America works, the latest immigrants are on the bottom. First the Irish and Germans, then the Italians and Jews, now the south americans.

    • @davidsigalow7349
      @davidsigalow7349 Рік тому

      It was STILL better than starving during a potato famine or working as a sharecropping peasant. At least, your children could get some public education and have a chance at something better.

    • @Jamestele1
      @Jamestele1 Рік тому +53

      Thankfully their kids grew up and served in the Military and became fully American, if they actually survived WWI and/or WWII. God bless our ancestors, and may they RIP

    • @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244
      @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Рік тому

      @@koalaeinstein-y7r Not all of them, but a long shot. I knew many who arrived during this time. My own mother's parents came that way. What people don't know and this video does not cover is that there was a placement program and eventually people found places to go and start up a life. They had to find work for them, first. But many cities' factories were filled in this way. My grandfather was a tailor and ran his own shop in upper Pennsylvania. They had a good life and eight children. Several of them became wealthy. One became a multimillionaire by the 1960s - legally.

    • @timhallas4275
      @timhallas4275 Рік тому

      they made it what it was, by coming here with no education, no skills and poor morals....then they bred like rats.

  • @curbyourshi1056
    @curbyourshi1056 Рік тому +2

    Keep it up!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому

      Thank you so much! 😊 Lots more to come and more from American social history too.

    • @curbyourshi1056
      @curbyourshi1056 Рік тому +1

      @@FactFeast Sorry it's not enough to buy you a pint. Unless you catch Wetherspoons on a good day. I normally listen to videos to go to sleep, but the illustrations and photos are far too good to drift off to...

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому

      I’m very grateful and happy too that you liked the presentation of the story 😀

    • @curbyourshi1056
      @curbyourshi1056 Рік тому

      ​​@@FactFeastYour enthusiasm shines through mate.

  • @docholliday1970
    @docholliday1970 Рік тому +15

    I'm a new subscriber to your Channel 💚 Thanks for sharing !

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +4

      Welcome to the channel! Thank you 😊

  • @Conservchick854
    @Conservchick854 Рік тому +3

    Love the pics and old 'moving pictures' snippets. The narrative describes well what many ancestors before us have told us....

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому

      Glad you enjoyed the presentation! Thank you.

  • @edwinpillay1409
    @edwinpillay1409 7 місяців тому +1

    Love this video, lived in the LES in the 80s as an immigrant, now in Brooklyn and tried., Love this City.

  • @sammyj8601
    @sammyj8601 8 місяців тому +4

    Amazing storytelling. I think I would have enjoyed history lessons more if we watched these videos.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  8 місяців тому

      Thank you! Lots more like this on my channel.

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 Рік тому +3

    It's definitely difficult hard to picture such conditions as those above, but the photos prove they did exist! Oh, my goodness!

  • @bobbylee2853
    @bobbylee2853 Рік тому +10

    This must have been what Rick was talking about when he said “there’s certain parts of NY I wouldn’t advise you invade” to the Germans in Casablanca.

    • @Javajavajav
      @Javajavajav 11 місяців тому +1

      The neighborhood was demolished and the park built in 1897 so no, since that movie took place 40 years later...

    • @wordcel
      @wordcel 9 місяців тому

      @@JavajavajavThere were still many slums in Manhattan all the way up to the 1980s/90s. Even today, there are a handful of slums in Manhattan, but they are very small and scattered due to gentrification

  • @virginiawilliams9998
    @virginiawilliams9998 Рік тому +9

    My great grandparents left Genoa and arrived in New York in 1884. They lived in a tenement on Baxter Street near Bayard Street for years before moving to Downing Street in the Village and then on to Bay Ridge. Their neighbors on Baxter Street were mostly Genoese who spoke the dialect (which to my ear sounds more like French than Italian) There were still some Irish and Irish-Americans living on lower Baxter in those days. I am told my family often spoke of Baxter Street in fond reminiscences. Thank you for the informative video and evocative photos!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for sharing your story. It’s great to know you found the history and photos so interesting.

    • @davehughesfarm7983
      @davehughesfarm7983 Рік тому +1

      i bet its hell now too

  • @Jamestele1
    @Jamestele1 Рік тому +47

    I'm grateful that my Victorian era Irish and Scottish ancestors went West to farm. The were hungry, but they made a good life. The Potato Famine was a senseless and unnecessary event, cause by selfish greed. The Italians were initially "stuck" in the cities, but like smart immigrants do, they pooled together into ethnic neighborhoods or rural "Trachts" and helped each other: Germans did it, Irish, Japanese, Arab, until they became "accepted" into mainstream culture or whatever.

    • @chrisper7527
      @chrisper7527 Рік тому +7

      Lol@“Accepted”. Isn’t it wonderful to be “accepted” where you are given a pass to flourish? Too bad for the African Americans.😒

    • @653j521
      @653j521 Рік тому +10

      @@chrisper7527 If I went to their land, I would be happy to be accepted. But I don't have a chip on my shoulder. This is not at all the situation for African Americans. No comparison.

    • @joejones9520
      @joejones9520 Рік тому

      @@chrisper7527 it's always been their poor behavior that holds them back or that inspires discrimination, today with media it's so easy to see what the problem is, everyday same thing wherever they are in the world and that's even with media covering for them.

    • @themaskedman221
      @themaskedman221 Рік тому

      @@chrisper7527 lol, you're raining on the pity party. These people think it's realistic to waltz into a country with no skills or money and be automatically accepted into the upper classes. In no country on earth has this ever happened to anyone. And yet the descendants of these European immigrants ascended into the middle and upper classes of the US in just a few generations; for some it was even quicker.

    • @RonFilco.9358
      @RonFilco.9358 Рік тому

      ​@@chrisper7527what are you 10? Stop your crying already!!

  • @Shineon83
    @Shineon83 Рік тому +70

    Bless the souls of the poor who once lived in the slums of NYC-most were decent people who, wanting to provide for their families, took their courage in hand-and their life savings-and immigrated across the ocean to a totally alien world….
    Driven by The Great Irish Potato Famine, the nonstop German wars & uprisings for unity, and by a host of other upheavals, most didn’t speak the language, and took any job(s) they could find-while living in the only places they could afford (and as The Gilded Age swanned along, they died by the thousands - from all of the diseases associated with poverty, squalor & hopelessness: Cholera, Yellow Fever & Tuberculosis)…..Have mercy upon them.

    • @EdmundDantes-l1g
      @EdmundDantes-l1g 11 місяців тому +3

      *emigrated
      Not immigrated
      In the context you wrote

    • @teenac718
      @teenac718 8 місяців тому +1

      Absolutely true. Should be taught at schools.

  • @lastlogicallib
    @lastlogicallib Рік тому +3

    Incredible video. Bravo!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому

      Thank you very much! Glad the history interests you.

  • @Lonesome__Dove
    @Lonesome__Dove Рік тому +15

    Theres a great book that details this slum. A john jakes book called the American. Its part of the kent family chronicles. The entire series is a must read.

  • @debbiesims138
    @debbiesims138 Рік тому +22

    So much wealth in NYC, Vanderbilts, Astors, and instead of helping these people they were building large mansions and throwing expensive parties.

    • @Dalt21
      @Dalt21 Рік тому +11

      Nothing has changed honestly

    • @kayfitzgerald309
      @kayfitzgerald309 Рік тому +8

      Just like today 21st century 😢

    • @zcl812
      @zcl812 Рік тому +9

      Same thing today. Wealth inequality is actually worse now

    • @peepthezoobazz
      @peepthezoobazz День тому

      I mean they built the train stations and theatres and bridges. May have exploited these people, but atleast they used to build landmarks. We're still exploited and dont get squat

  • @whataboutrob442
    @whataboutrob442 Рік тому +3

    Love information like this. New subscriber.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      Thank you. Welcome to the channel!

  • @benefitsconsultingservices8718
    @benefitsconsultingservices8718 Рік тому +13

    I was born and raised on the Lower East side of NY. My family lived there in the 40s We lived there until 1977. It was then and still is
    A rough neighborhood. In order to survive you HAD to be a good fighter or else!!! I grew up with a group of guys who were the Bowery boys. We all did things we won’t do now however, back then we did what we had to do.

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 Рік тому +1

      My first experience with cocaine was on the LES. Smh

    • @christophercox936
      @christophercox936 2 місяці тому +1

      Grew up in alphabet city. Was violent but fun. I’m rich now but I’ll never forget those days.

  • @lanacampbell-moore6686
    @lanacampbell-moore6686 Рік тому +7

    Happy Sunday & Thanks F.F.❤

  • @msbeth420
    @msbeth420 3 місяці тому +2

    Love history thx for something so entertaining 😎

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  3 місяці тому

      You're welcome. Glad you liked it.

  • @curbyourshi1056
    @curbyourshi1056 Рік тому +10

    16:29, that Shillelagh is almost as big as him, bless his tough heart. ❤

    • @micknorman2333
      @micknorman2333 Рік тому +1

      What Shillelagh? That's a old double barrel shot gun. Have a look back at it.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 Рік тому +5

    How are you doing sir. Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Honestly with every new video you posted we learn new vocabularies and new information. First of all I looked up for meaning of bandit is armed thief ( in order use ) one who attacks people while they are traveling. Synonyms gangster , outlaw , crook . Bandit roost 59/ 2 mulberry street . In early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis documenting living conditions in New York slums in 1880s . How other half lives studies among tenements of New York . The photography taken in “ bend “ dangerous and poor alley in mulberry street newyork city that no longer exist . Bend was core of city tenement slums known for crime ridden populations of mostly Italian origin . Riis social activism in pursuit of better life conditions for poorest classes of New York where picture was published one of best examples was one of factors that led to demolition of mulberry bend which was later replaced by park . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information. Good luck to you your dearest ones .

  • @JohnMarcovich-nj8wh
    @JohnMarcovich-nj8wh Рік тому +2

    I've watched this video 3 times in the last week. I'm fascinated by the videos of life back then. I can't stop watching it. 😂

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      Fantastic! Nice to know it’s interesting history.

  • @kaylalindblom628
    @kaylalindblom628 Рік тому +6

    I have heard somewhere that the apartment on the honeymooners was based on Jackie Gleeson's experience as a boy in the early 1900's in a New York city tenement slum apartment.

  • @floramew
    @floramew Рік тому +39

    I like the narrative style of all these readings, but something struck me especially about the words "pristine nastiness". In context, it really illustrates the feeling, I think.

    • @curbyourshi1056
      @curbyourshi1056 Рік тому +1

      Just edgy old school talk to me. Anyone can form a dichotomy.

    • @AB-un4io
      @AB-un4io Рік тому +2

      No, there wasn’t anything pristine about it but I think the OP was pointing out the juxtaposition of putting those two words together rather than trying to make any of it sound or seem fanciful. It’s like the term “exquisite pain.” Sounds wrong coming out of the mouth but it describes what some people experience. Maybe not. Have a great day all!

  • @HugoKit-c2o
    @HugoKit-c2o 4 місяці тому +5

    The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

    • @suezimarie61
      @suezimarie61 2 місяці тому

      Good Grief.... Im 63 years old, but you Really Opened My Eyes wiith that, Hun. - Thank You x

  • @northidenicc8287
    @northidenicc8287 Рік тому +5

    I really enjoyed watching 'The Bend '...

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      That’s great! Glad the history is interesting.

  • @MichaelGloth-f7j
    @MichaelGloth-f7j 6 місяців тому +2

    Love your vid 👍

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  6 місяців тому

      Much appreciated!

  • @ratatat9790
    @ratatat9790 4 місяці тому +1

    Fantastic footage.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  4 місяці тому

      Glad you liked it!

  • @Downecker
    @Downecker Рік тому +1

    When the term " Spoiled Child " wasn't even thought of ! Very horrible times !😢😮

  • @LinTrueCrimeProject
    @LinTrueCrimeProject 11 місяців тому

    My grandmother's family landed there in 1913 and moved to Brooklyn later. Many families moved thru lower NYC before setting roots.

  • @richardjohnston3359
    @richardjohnston3359 Рік тому +21

    Sounds the same as parts of Victorin London or Glasgow

    • @BloodSweatandFears
      @BloodSweatandFears 4 місяці тому

      Yes, humans pretty much do the same sorts of things, just in different place and different languages. We are creatures of habit 😂

  • @leftymadrid
    @leftymadrid Рік тому +2

    This channel is Gold ❤

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  11 місяців тому +1

      Thank you! Glad you’re interested in this history.

  • @davidsigalow7349
    @davidsigalow7349 Рік тому +28

    Love these street names:
    "Can you direct me to 'Bandit's Roost'?"
    "Well, you go east on 'Ragpickers Row' until you get to 'Dead Goat 🐐 Park'...then make a right on 'Blood Alley' and you can't miss it- just look for some filthy, meanacing tramps in bowler hats carrying clubs."

  • @laurarandolph5600
    @laurarandolph5600 Місяць тому +1

    This is the era of fabulous wealth, grotequely luxurious palaces and lifestyle for the rich...

  • @matts1351
    @matts1351 Рік тому +36

    Modern day NY is every rat’s dream opportunity. I can’t imagine 100 years ago before plumbing, ventilation, cleaning solutions, or pressure washers!

  • @michaelharrison3602
    @michaelharrison3602 Рік тому +5

    I grew up in Bermondsey, South London in the forties and fifties and conditions weren't that much better

    • @confusedbadger6275
      @confusedbadger6275 Рік тому +1

      My father was born in Bradford in ghe mid 20's. Times were seriously tough. He went to work "down t'mill" at 12 years old.

  • @mrt601
    @mrt601 Рік тому

    That was very fascinating well played sir and thank for the entertainment and education

  • @francisfischer7620
    @francisfischer7620 Рік тому +4

    This is where my people ended up. They never forgot. Stories handed on year after year.

  • @lorascelsi8102
    @lorascelsi8102 Рік тому +3

    Now no more tenements, just poor folks living in cars, tent cities, or on the streets.

  • @Nora-ei4ph
    @Nora-ei4ph Рік тому +9

    Overcrowded, overrun homeless camps in CA, keep adding more and more unhoused! Homeless shelters can't keep up with the demand by migrants from Mexican border crisis! Over 5 million people this year alone?

  • @crazychicSHENA
    @crazychicSHENA Рік тому +3

    So horrible The living conditions in their time Five 📌 points NYC really had a notorious rep my great 👵 granny landed in Boston Massachusetts 🚢 she was newly off the boat from county Clare Ireland🇮🇪☘️ and Poor .

  • @bluefaery1865
    @bluefaery1865 Рік тому +2

    I'm subscribing 💙

  • @christinecollins6648
    @christinecollins6648 Рік тому +4

    The description of salami “ big awkward sausages, hanging “ lol

    • @cjaquilino
      @cjaquilino 8 місяців тому

      People need to take into account that these narrator's descriptions of what they saw came with biases. Like the way they described produce and bread being sold by Italians as queer and oddly shaped. That's really just xenophobia and classism and unfamiliarity with what they're looking at. The bread looked good.

  • @nobody6546
    @nobody6546 Рік тому +1

    🏆. Well Researched, Organized & Presented. Kudos. 👴🏽NoBody🎞️s.

  • @bryangoodson1721
    @bryangoodson1721 Рік тому +3

    The series COPPERS on Amazon Prime highlights the time period and 4 Points. It’s excellent.

  • @TonyVerrazano
    @TonyVerrazano 3 місяці тому

    My great great grandfather lived on Elizabeth Street in the 1890s. He came over from Sicily. He would eventually move the family to Brooklyn.

  • @yassasloan7308
    @yassasloan7308 Рік тому +3

    actually, The Bend has been reopened along with Collect Pond (though artificial pond instead of the natural spring it originally was)... you can still find dubious "kosher" dirty water franks on the block😅

  • @robertabray-enhus3198
    @robertabray-enhus3198 2 місяці тому +1

    So much death and disease in those crowded tenements😮!
    The babies and children afflicted first,sadly.

  • @Heywoodthepeckerwood
    @Heywoodthepeckerwood Рік тому

    This was great. Sub’d

  • @kathleenferguson3296
    @kathleenferguson3296 8 місяців тому +1

    That's how we lived in Greenwich Village. There are so many restaurants and bars downtown, because nobody can stay in their hot, tiny apartments. In the summer, the streets are swarming with people. The cops are on horses, because thr cars can't get through.

  • @curbyourshi1056
    @curbyourshi1056 Рік тому +17

    I love that relatively rich people walk into and commentate upon poor people. Imagine people from prosperous countries talking like that today if they went into the slums of say, the Philippines? They'd be cancelled and subject to utter derision. Kind of rightly so too. Keep up the great content!

    • @juliaedi111
      @juliaedi111 Рік тому

      27:02

    • @cobainzlady
      @cobainzlady Рік тому

      we had to stop allowing so much mass immigration, in order to put a stop to this. people can' t just randomly come here with nothing, it doesn't work.

  • @PIERRECLARY
    @PIERRECLARY Рік тому +5

    4:16... the Bowery comes from the old french Bouverie "place for the oxen (bœufs-> bouverie) " i don't know if this was imported from London ( there is a bowery in stoke newington ) or directly from france too....

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      Interesting! Good to know. I hadn't heard of such a place in London.

    • @PIERRECLARY
      @PIERRECLARY Рік тому +1

      @@FactFeast my mistake! (0r the small alley i remember doesn't exist anymore) There is a BOUVERIE rd in london!!!!

    • @katyp.2495
      @katyp.2495 Рік тому +2

      Yep, there's a Bouverie Road in Stoke Newington, and runs alongside Abney Park. It's off Manor Road if I remember rightly. I used to get taken to play in the paddling pool in Clissold Park as a kid. Happy days 😊.

    • @normagoff1916
      @normagoff1916 Рік тому

      Good grief. In perspective, NYC has been and will always be a xenobobe’s nightmare. Just change the country of origin every 30 yrs or so…
      But it’s also a testament that every community rose up to the challenges, overcame adversity, and moved on. NYC is a survivor’s land and will continue to be. 🇺🇸

  • @Kerplakistandan
    @Kerplakistandan Рік тому +1

    11:57 dude in the upper left is an early photobomber. He was definitely the comedic relief in his circle.

  • @LiveSilence3
    @LiveSilence3 10 місяців тому +1

    This Guy is The BEST narrator For dark And horrible History

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  10 місяців тому

      Much appreciated!

  • @kevinhayes1656
    @kevinhayes1656 Рік тому +234

    That’s not far off from where San Francisco California is headed today

    • @ThatGuy-mu2rr
      @ThatGuy-mu2rr Рік тому +42

      Every city in the US is rapidly becoming just like this.

    • @henrytrotier5995
      @henrytrotier5995 Рік тому +11

      Based !!!!

    • @AshesAshes44
      @AshesAshes44 Рік тому +10

      Heading? It was very french revolutiony when I lived there a few years ago. The pandemic has not helped

    • @eriknelson45
      @eriknelson45 Рік тому

      Already there with the most expensive zip code in the country as a close by suburb. Some of those ultra rich folks hire ex-military army, marines, etc. as property body gaurds. Wont see no skinny jean wearing, black hoodie havin, window smashing with a spark plug to steal your dirty laundry from camping because it's in a 200$ northface backpack, worthless excuse for a body, stole mom's car and crashed it for the THIRD time, hope some other P.O.S. takes them out for good, won't be missed ever, better world without them, lo-life theif, tweaker, bum, in that neighborhood. Area has smart camera recognition that alerts local police, county sherrif's, private security, if your car isn't worth 130,000$

    • @poopsock7493
      @poopsock7493 Рік тому +26

      ​@AshesAshes44 neither has defending police, BLM terrorist attacks, or this current administration.

  • @dennisb119
    @dennisb119 8 місяців тому +2

    New York is heading back to this

    • @raw8814
      @raw8814 4 місяці тому +1

      Not even close

  • @OedipusRx
    @OedipusRx 5 місяців тому +1

    Recommendation: 'down and out in Paris and London,' by George Orwell

  • @blankwavemessiah
    @blankwavemessiah 3 місяці тому

    this was pretty good......
    Every time he said "IN THE BEND!" after a set of sentences, it just sounded like a long/epic poem

  • @zegarmistrz00
    @zegarmistrz00 Рік тому +5

    Good stuff

  • @ieattofu68
    @ieattofu68 Рік тому +7

    Can you imagine all the families in this present age that have inherited wealth from their slumlord ancestors?

  • @bonzie321
    @bonzie321 Рік тому

    Even though the voice is really spooky, I’m going to subscribe.

  • @gradyrm237
    @gradyrm237 Рік тому +9

    How is procreation even on the minds of people during this Hell? Aside from not being able to house and feed the ones you already have, how do two people that must reek of a foulness I can't even imagine have sex? Someone PLEASE do a doc on that.

    • @ivycarrano8207
      @ivycarrano8207 Рік тому +2

      I've offen wondered about that.

    • @AshleySpeaks09
      @AshleySpeaks09 Рік тому

      I’ve seen the highs and lows of housing so I’ll give you some insight.
      My last apts were income based town homes that also accepted section 8 (the devil). In a matter of 3mos what was a nice, affordable place to live became the hood. They came in with a bunch of kids and no job and did nothing all day long but lay up with their loser boyfriends. Now they have no car, no job, unit a mess, their lives are a mess but you can guarantee they’re going to have a warm body in bed!! Their kids could be dirty, not going to school, out all night they did not care. They had absolutely nothing to look forward to but the one thing that’s free: sex.
      Contrast that to my new apts on the other side of town. Come 5-6am there are hardly any cars in the lot because everyone is at WORK!!! The only ppl here during the day are wfh ppl like myself or older couples. When school lets out they don’t send their kids outside to play all night and make a ruckus. The kids here walk the dog and play for a bit (in front of their own unit) then they are back inside I’m sure for chores and homework.
      At my last apts every weekend was a party. I had never seen ppl have so much company. I grew up being taught you don’t have ppl over if your house is a mess, you have no food etc they didn’t care nor did their company. They would all just pile in the garage talking loud all night like they had no dwelling to go inside of. New apts the weekends are just as quiet as during the week. The singles have a life, the young couples work a lot it seems, young families are always gone and the elderly have a church van to take them out. Everyone over here is just regular but it’s so nice.
      I guarantee you most of the ppl in my new apts have like half the sex the ppl at my old apts do because 1) they have jobs 2) they actually raise their kids 3) want more out of life … I can’t be in the mood for a damn thing when I’m broke much less looking at an even broker man but some ppl really do not care. Back then was diff but you have ppl in 2023 still living like that by choice.
      That’s why rent is so high and you have to jump through hoops to get in trying to keep the trash out. And I’ll tell you something else race doesn’t even matter because my old apts had blk/white/Indian/Hispanic and poverty brought out the ugly in all of them. New apts are more white not gonna lie but you have a little color sprinkled in. I don’t even care as long as they’re clean and quiet.
      But ya that’s my little 2 cents I’ve lived in apts my whole life some better than others and I am telling you broke ppl love to screw. I get off more on a new purse but hey that’s just me.

    • @Erosgates
      @Erosgates Рік тому

      @@ivycarrano8207likewise haha.

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 Рік тому

      Alcohol 😂

    • @forestman2382
      @forestman2382 Рік тому

      Basic biology

  • @Wendy-rt5em
    @Wendy-rt5em Рік тому

    We are living the things today all over the country. Very interesting love history Thank you

  • @katharper655
    @katharper655 Рік тому +9

    Martin Scorsese's "GANGS OF NEW YORK" MOVIE depicts Civil War-era 5 Points...the movie, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio was spellbindingly brutal depiction of life in the 5 Points. Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall figure strongly.

    • @swannoir7949
      @swannoir7949 Рік тому

      It wasn't the Civil War era. It was the Revolutionary War era.

    • @paulwolffart1251
      @paulwolffart1251 Рік тому +3

      @@swannoir7949it was absolutely civil war era in the movie. The Irish coming into the US were immediately made to enlist in the Union Army and sent off to war. They even talk about Lincoln in the movie and an actor is depicted impersonating him on stage getting pummeled with rotten produce. Watch the movie again.

    • @MichaelGloth-f7j
      @MichaelGloth-f7j 6 місяців тому

      Great Movie

  • @shereesmazik5030
    @shereesmazik5030 Рік тому +4

    What shocked me was the ad in the window for an opera and amber bead necklace .

    • @653j521
      @653j521 Рік тому +1

      Many Italians, poor or not, loved and sang opera.

  • @keepitsimple4629
    @keepitsimple4629 Рік тому +22

    Seeing this reminds me of my neighbors' yards. They can't pick up a thing; their trash piles just grow and grow. To see them on the street they look clean enough, but their properties! I'm waiting to see a commode on somebody's front porch.

    • @MásCebollasPorFavor
      @MásCebollasPorFavor Рік тому +4

      I got a commode specifically for yard decor because my neighbors pissed me off with all their shenanigans and loud music starting at around 4 am and going all through the day and until midnight or later. Thankfully they've moved away. I was out there every day sweeping and picking up the trash other people littered until they moved in and then someone called the city on me for growing vegetable plants in buckets. The city was absolutely horrible to deal with and my health has gone downhill majorly so idgaf anymore.

    • @michaelpatterson9119
      @michaelpatterson9119 Рік тому +2

      So you guys live In newyork right?so nothing has changed.

    • @vstarcruiser7141
      @vstarcruiser7141 Рік тому +5

      @@MásCebollasPorFavor u r hilarious a commode for yard decide..

    • @maggiemae7539
      @maggiemae7539 Рік тому

      In Oklahoma people use toilets in their yards for decoration. And you will see recliners on front porches

  • @t.y.5565
    @t.y.5565 Рік тому +3

    As bad as the housing was where were the tenants supposed to go when their homes were demolished?

  • @redneckroy8947
    @redneckroy8947 Рік тому +14

    "He carried a shelaighlie, possibly to be used as a club!"
    Ummmm, yeah, probably. It is literally an irish style club. Thats what it is for......

  • @Curlyblonde
    @Curlyblonde 5 місяців тому +2

    Italians living cheek-by-jowl with the Irish in crowded, horrible poverty; what other than the obvious mayhem could happen there?
    History is repeating itself as we are reliving these Good Ole Days with the huge amount of poor homeless and uncontrolled influx of migrants unabled to be housed.

    • @PlanXV
      @PlanXV 3 місяці тому

      Unabled to be house 😮

  • @annem7806
    @annem7806 Рік тому +11

    We had "Fresh Air" kids upstate in the 60's.

  • @ChristianArgueta-v5s
    @ChristianArgueta-v5s 11 місяців тому +2

    It's not a slum anymore. I was there a few months ago. It's a busy metropolitan area. Coffee shops, benches, restaurants and you would never know the history if you didn't know it

  • @GraffitiForensics
    @GraffitiForensics Рік тому +27

    One thing that stands out for me is how vulnerable children were living under those conditions of poverty. It has me wondering how bad the predator problem was, given all those vulnerable children. They were in great need of food, hygiene, hope, protection ... and that's not the entire list of things lacking that a predator will try to exploit and manipulate children with. Human trafficking? Child trafficking? We may never know how bad it was if records were destroyed or those crimes were not always documented. But it's clear the conditions children were living in made them prime targets of those who looked for opportunities to exploit them.

    • @davidsigalow7349
      @davidsigalow7349 Рік тому +13

      Children were exploited horribly, but so were the adults - those who'd arrived a few years ago from The Old Country were happy to exploit the next group of greenhorns who trusted them.

    • @Catquick1957
      @Catquick1957 Рік тому +4

      Read about Albert Fish

    • @mikemarley2389
      @mikemarley2389 Рік тому +3

      Child predation is worse now.

    • @jeltoninc.8542
      @jeltoninc.8542 Рік тому +3

      I mean Mary was like 12 when God knocked her up. Kinda gross.

    • @peggypasson8794
      @peggypasson8794 Рік тому +4

      I think that may be why my granny was so protective of us .they don't forget

  • @WaldoBMC3
    @WaldoBMC3 Рік тому

    thats where my family lived when they came from Italy. my Aunt Mini was born 1918 the first of our family born in America. she said it was bad when she was 10 years old.

  • @Evocati-Augusti
    @Evocati-Augusti 8 місяців тому

    My neighborhood that was once owned by Tesla on his 200-acre Tower property in Shoreham NY, made a deal with he building to name the streets, the roads were cut in 1920 but it didn't fill up until the 60s,but they kept there word, some were obvious ,but the last street I couldn't find an answer until now, the street is called "The Bend" East Shoreham NY 11786 , and Tesla was there from 1895-1910 ,they said he had official stopped experiment in 1905, but he had built a house and 2 other labs under ground, then went from hotel to hotel in NYC when he stopped and lived about his life at the New Yorker.

  • @1lthrnk
    @1lthrnk Рік тому +8

    Our most famous Italian and Irish gangs started here

    • @joejones9520
      @joejones9520 Рік тому +2

      all in the same spot that a beautiful 40 acre natural spring fed pond was that was used for many yrs for fishing and ice-skating and even was the source of NYC's first water supply, Collect Pond, impossible to imagine it ever existed today

    • @thegreencat9947
      @thegreencat9947 Рік тому

      Dead Rabbits.

  • @MyPhobo
    @MyPhobo Рік тому +1

    5:06 "the optimists at the health department" lol

  • @Mr100741
    @Mr100741 Рік тому +1

    Even though Men & Women could barely feed themselves and lived in small squalid rooms they had no problem producing more and more Children that they could not properly care for.

    • @forestman2382
      @forestman2382 Рік тому

      Basic biology, people, especially men , have an urge to mate and they didn't have any technology to distract them and not much of other forms of entertainment

    • @sammyj8601
      @sammyj8601 8 місяців тому

      Contraception was probably not very common in those days and I don’t think they had planned parenthood then either 😂

    • @Illuminatisevil
      @Illuminatisevil 5 місяців тому

      Poor people have more children than middle class

  • @michaelharrison3602
    @michaelharrison3602 Рік тому +3

    "Carrying a shelaiglie possibly as use as a club?"a club is what it is no other use

  • @danielroncaioli6882
    @danielroncaioli6882 11 місяців тому

    This is a great example of how my people were looked down upon and misunderstood by other Europeans and native New Yorkers.

  • @lynnemurphy114
    @lynnemurphy114 Рік тому +4

    I 💚this channel

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      I’m very glad you do 😊 Thanks for your support Lynne!

    • @lynnemurphy114
      @lynnemurphy114 Рік тому +1

      @@FactFeast your my favourite vicorian/Edwardian channel..And the man who tells the storys his voice is perfiction artwork and photos and I love the new colouring your doing now...I always must watch and keep in my vault..Thankyou for takeing time to always show the common foke💚👌🤩

  • @mustlovedogs8179
    @mustlovedogs8179 3 місяці тому +1

    These people could’ve live much better lives if not for the psychopathic greed of the factory owners and the wealthy.