Life on the Lower East Side

by Jennifer Blizin Gillis

Book Overview

This book tells about life on the Lower East Side of New York City from 1870 to 1913. People had been coming to New York City from other countries since the 1600s. But in the middle of the 1800s, millions of people from Italy and Eastern Europe came to the city to live and set up businesses. Most of them were Jewish. People who came from other countries wanted to be near people like them. On the Lower East Side, they found a place where other people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403437963
• ISBN13: 9781403437969
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

Great book about tenement living in NY for immigrants in the 1800's.