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The Lower East Side tenements
1863
97 Orchard Street, Manhattan
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At its peak the district held some 700 people per acre, among the densest ever recorded anywhere. One preserved building at 97 Orchard housed around 7,000 people from over twenty countries before its landlord sealed the flats in 1935 rather than meet new codes.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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