TIL "slumming" was a Gilded Age tourist craze

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TIL "slumming" was a Gilded Age tourist craze, when wealthy patrons paid guides for nighttime tours of New York’s Chinatown to watch the poor. Demand got so high that operators staged fake opium dens with hired actors so the rich would get the squalor they paid for.
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Chuck Connors & Slum Tourism in Chinatown - New York Almanack

Dating from 1785, Edward Mooney House at 18 Bowery, at the corner of Pell Street in Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown, is one of New York’s oldest surviving brick

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