Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of New York's slums in his book ... Here are some of the photos that changed New York City — and America — forever.

THE heartbreaking pictures were shot between 1900 and ... station THESE harrowing photographs reveal the slum-like lives of New York's immigrants more than a century ago. Ellis Island, the ...

Stark pictures of the real-life gangs of New York show the appalling slum conditions the mobsters lived in as they savagely fought each other for control of the area THESE startling pictures of ...

Photos of late ... Museum of the City of New York Now that Riis lives on in the name of a public housing project in a system that comprises the city’s worst current slums, a good case can ...

The stark photos of sweat shops, shanty towns and slums provide an image of an unrecognisable ... At times Riis also documents the other side of New York - the white picket fences, the prim ...

The Urban Renewal federal program catalyzed the demolition of many buildings, and by the 1950s New York City had changed considerably. Let's take a look at a few more pictures of life in New York ...