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What was most new immigrants vulnerable to when they inter new York city?

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Photographer Jacob Riis exposed the squalid and unsafe state of NYC immigrant tenements. New immigrants to New York City in the late 1800s faced grim, cramped living conditions in tenement housing that once dominated the Lower East Side.

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