City - Elegant Apartments - 1912 - Side by side is a photograph by Mike Savad which was uploaded on April 14th, 2015.
Title
City - Elegant Apartments - 1912 - Side by side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Black And White
Description
Colorized photo from 1912
Original Title: 233 E. 107th St., N.Y. Rent sign states that these are "Eleganti Apartmenti." License was recently revoked and, after that, our investigator found eight families doing home-work there. It is in miserable shape.
Location: New York, NY
This apartment was filled with people that were dirt poor, all making a small living making things in their house. A series of images were taken for the Child Labor division, because little kids should be playing and not forced to work by their parents. The building owner lost their license to run this place as an apartment, and I think it was because of these images.
However I liked that we are seeing the poor side of this era. Usually you see Victorian ladies in their fine outwear, kids in little hats, all having a fun day out. You never get to see the poorer side of this time. An old run down street, covered in what must be ice, because there is no snow really any place else, and it is Feburary. Shop fronts selling things, laundry drying, just a casual every day scene.
Today this location is gone. the sign shows an address of 206 Broadway, and every map engine I tried sent me to a different street. I'm guessing this spot is gone, because the building was in bad shape even in this photo.
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April 14th, 2015
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