Lower Manhattan

The day we visited the area was kind of gray and wanted to rain however we got to see great architecture in lower Manhattan one of the building well pavilion that I thought was really interesting was the African burial ground national monument even though it was kind of creepy standing on were people were buried. The architecture in this pavilion was amazing starting with the entry a triangle pointing at the direction of the world. The exit is epic too it has the feeling of the world is together by surrounding the world ramp. Finally the symbol on the wall which all mean something else.

African Burial Ground National Monument on 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007, at Duane Street the Civic Center district of Lower Manhattan, New York City. There is a Monument for more than 400 Africans buried during the late 1700s and 1800s centuries which were estimated to be the largest colonial era cemetery for African Americans. When people were excavating for this site to build they found this however the city of New York preserves the site to be “the most important historic urban archeological project in the United States.

NYC in the 1800s

Population in the big cities of U.S. grew in a remarkable amoung in the late 1800s and early 1900s, This happen by the urbanization, industrialization, and immigration of the time. Employment in industry increased in a tremendous rate by 400 percent from 1880 to 1920 while 14 million people immigrated to U.S. in the same period.

In New York City, there was an amazing population increase every decade from 1800 to 1880. The population would double every decade because of these buildings that were single family dwelling were divide into multiple living spaces.

The conditions in the first tenements were very poor and people lived in enormously crowded situation. When the first tenements were built there were almost no law regulations. Therefore housing didn’t have lighting or air which people need to survive.

An old-law tenement was typically 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep and six stories tall. Build to accommodate 26 families in 325 square-foot apartments.  Often these apartments had no windows, apart from the living room, which often was window looking out to a tiny light shaft or if not just another room in the same apartment. They would live like this which was unhealthy to people living there specially kids this is why kids would die in higher rate than any other category or any age type.

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