The Ghetto

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Stock #:231458
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: New York
State: New York (NY)
Publisher: The American Art Publishing Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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The Ghetto, New York City. The Ghetto, also known as "Judea" covers a large section of the East Side between Third Avenue and the river from Chatham Square to 10th Street. It consists of 6 and 7 story tenement houses, crowded to their eaves with humanity. A certain square mile of this section is said to contain a quarter of a million people. The narrow streets all through the Ghetto are thronged with push cart vendors, who deal in fruits and food stuffs of every description

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