New York's Bohemians were miserably poor in the 1800s and the only immigrants of any significant number in New York to have no wealthy man amongst them, and none that did not have to work hard for a living, or could escape the tenement according to the social investigator Jacob Riis. Find out how they lived, often trapped by landlords who, with one hand gave out low-paid work in cigar making to their tenants and, with the other, demanded outrageously high rents for mean and dingy tenement rooms.
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