New York City is completely different from Hollywood portrayed in the early 1900s. The city does not provide proper housing, safety or sanitation for more than 66% of the population. In many cases, apart from enough job opportunities, the city is much worse than the situation where immigrants stay in Europe.
From 1880 to 1924, a wave of immigration occurred in New York City, when the United States restricted immigration to everyone except Western European people. For most immigrants, their initial experience in New York was the hostility of the United States to new immigrants. When they find their place of residence (usually an apartment building), their residence is so crowded, insufficient water and sanitation, and frequent outbreaks of diseases such as cholera , typhus and other infectious diseases.
10-15 Family members will squeeze in two small rooms, one used as a kitchen and the other used as a bedroom. By 1900, more than 66% of the population lived this kind of life. There are 80,000 apartment buildings with almost no sanitation and safety management.
Organized crime is also rampant, and problems such as child labour, forced prostitution and economic exploitation will continue for decades.
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