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heading to new york tomorrow - hope it’s cooled down…
photo of the yard of a tennement at Park Avenue and 107th Street, circa 1900, from the library of congress prints and photgraphs collection via the NPR website. caption says:
As many as 100,000 people were crammed into tennement-style dwellings in New York’s Lower East Side in the latter half of the 19th century. The overcrowded, poorly ventilated tenements became ovens during New York’s 1896 heat wave, which killed nearly 1,500 people.
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