Elevated subway viaduct on Broadway in West Harlem New York City
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1937 - Firemen set up their ladders at a tenement building burning in New York City.
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1923 - In this silent film, a woman and her young daughter jump into a firemen's life net from a burning building.
Bowery tenements and Little Italy rooftops at dusk in Lower Manhattan
1937 - Firemen lug hoses up their engine ladders to tend to a burning tenement building in New York City.
Midtown Manhattan skyline above Hell's Kitchen tenements in New York City
Tompkins Square Park and East Village tenements in Manhattan New York
Housing towers and tenements on the Lower East Side of Manhattan New York
Skeleton mural and billboards on a Jersey City warehouse near Manhattan
Ludlow Street tenements and restaurant awnings in the Lower East Side Manhattan
Apartment towers above a shopping avenue in Washington Heights Manhattan NYC
Chinatown rooftops and the Empire State Building in Lower Manhattan NYC
Community vegetable garden between Bedford-Stuyvesant tenements in Brooklyn
New construction above Lower East Side tenements in Manhattan New York
Aerial view of Market Square, a sweeping panorama of Opole Old Town with the Town Hall tower and colorful tenements, Opole, Poland
Rooftop terraces and fire escapes of Yorkville tenements in New York City
1937 - Firemen lug hoses up their engine ladders to tend to a burning tenement building in New York City.
Chinatown rooftops at night below One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan
George Washington Bridge above Hudson Heights tenements in Upper Manhattan NYC
Aerial slow pan shows Wroclaw Old Town Rynek in Poland, with gabled tenements, red tiles, brick clock tower, checkerboard roof, green copper spires, cars and tiny pedestrians.
Lower East Side rooftops and avenue from above in Manhattan New York
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1923 - In this silent film, firefighters start putting out the flames on a building where a little girl is trapped.
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1937 - Firemen lug hoses up their engine ladders to tend to a burning tenement building in New York City.
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1937 - Firemen try to get into a burning tenement building in New York City.
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1937 - Firemen rescue an unconscious woman from a burning tenement building.
East Orange rail corridor and Interstate 280 in northern New Jersey
Uk City Skyline - Aerial View Of Apartment Tenements In North London Britain
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1937 - Firemen lug hoses up their engine ladders to tend to a burning tenement building in New York City.
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1937 - An aerial view of firemen climbing ladders up to a burning tenement building in New York City.
Snow covered Lower East Side rooftops and tenements in Manhattan New York
Apartment rooftops in golden hour light in uptown New York City
1946 - The newly-invented wrecking ball is used to demolish slums in New York's lower east side to make room for better housing.
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1919 - People hang out of their New York City tenement windows to cheer for a passing military parade of men from the 27th Division.
Little Italy street between Manhattan tenements in New York City
1937 - A fire chief directs ladders at a burning tenement building in New York City.
Chinatown tenements above a rainy Canal Street in Lower Manhattan New York
Chinatown apartment blocks and the Brooklyn Bridge in Lower Manhattan
1931 - Civilians volunteer to help firemen with rescue work after a deadly cave-in destroys tenements in Lyons, France.
Rowhouses and waterfront towers above the East River in Greenpoint Brooklyn
1937 - Firemen rescue an unconscious woman from a burning tenement building.
1937 - Firemen try to get into a burning tenement building in New York City.
Chinatown streets and brick tenements in Manhattan New York City
Chinatown and Lower East Side rooftops below the Manhattan skyline
Townhouse rooftops on the Upper East Side above the streets of Manhattan NY
1937 - An aerial view of firemen climbing ladders up to a burning tenement building in New York City.
Midtown Manhattan skyline at sunrise beyond Lower East Side tenements New York
1937 - Firemen set up their ladders at a tenement building burning in New York City.
USA - 1946 - The newly-invented wrecking ball is used to demolish slums in New York's lower east side to make room for better housing.