Progressive-Era New York Immigration and Tenements

Mass immigration and crowded tenement districts reshaped New York, while settlement houses, journalists and reformers campaigned over housing, labour and public health. Within the wider setting of Progressive Era America, 1890–1920, it brings together family life, work, class, gender and community institutions.

As a setting for historical novels, this context offers scope for stories about private choices, social expectations, economic pressure and changing local identities.