Tenement housing, New York City, USA. This tenement block is 260 to 268 Elizabeth Street, a street in Manhattan, New York City, USA. This area was mostly populated by Italian immigrants during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The tenement block itself is still in use as of 2013. This urban street scene, obtained by US sociologist and photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), dates from March 1912. Hine was a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), documenting working and living conditions for children, and campaigning against child labour and poverty in the USA.