Immigrants to 1800s New York lived in unimaginable squalor, and Italians searching for jobs were exploited in the horror of the garbage dumps, where gangs of men were living, eating and sleeping surrounded by filth. This is the story of the experience Italians were met with when arriving in New York, told by Jacob Riis.

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