New York's Turn-Of-The-Century Immigrant Slums, In Photos

Between 1900 and 1914, an average of well over half a million immigrants -- largely from central, eastern, and southern Europe -- came through New York each year (that's more than 5,000 per day). Today, nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population can trace at least one of their ancestors back to the immigrants who came through that one station during that short span.



New York's Turn-Of-The-Century Immigrant Slums, In Photos