Brooklyn Bridge condemned many New Yorkers to a life in darkness. It's construction improved transport between Manhattan and Long Island and brought economic benefits for New York, but, for some it made living conditions (that were already terrible), much worse. In this documentary eyewitness account from the late 1880s discover how, with natural light shut out, residents struggled to afford the fuel to light their work. Amongst filth and fetid air, women toiled endlessly, either at garment making (by night under the gas light of the street) or any work they could find, whilst their husbands worked (if they weren't in a saloon) as long-shore-men at the docks.

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CC BY - A wife asking her drunkard husband when will you get rid of the alcohol, On private action in respect of common lodging houses by Wellcome Collection
CC BY-SA - Brooklyn bridge tickets by By Lionel Martinez; Sewing demonstration of with a 1894 sewing machine by Pannini

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