Back_Allies

Back Allies Jacob Riis (“The Downtown Back Allies”) The “down town back allies” depicts how the lower class of New Yorker’s lived. Riis writes of disgusting, dilapidated conditions of tenement housings. Families are packed into small windowless rooms where they are forced to live due to insufficient funds. People had more trust in one other in those times. They would keep their apartment doors open for air. Because of this neighbors developed a closer relationship. The buildings these people lived in were run down for various reasons. Tenants did not have much money to fix their houses up and landlords cared more about their wallets than people. There were often fires and hazardous conditions in these buildings. Both the tenants and the people were to blame for these things because neither did much to better their situations. tenants, people, conditions, landlords, things, speak, small, poor, one, money, live, keep, families, due, buildings, because, riis, open, often, new, neighbors, much, living, lived, immigrants, english, doors, blame, back, allies, air, yorker’s, york, writing, writes