The Brutal Life of an 1800s New York 'Dead Beat' (Street Life in the Slums of Manhattan)

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[@mytwopennorth7216]

Good reading but the film clips were distracting...I listened to it as an audio book.

[@ruth_southernstar]

Agreed

[@droogsurgeon1440]

Interesting. I was homeless for almost ten years after I got out of the military. I came back to normal life and all my friends were on heroin, it wasn’t long at all before I lost everything in my life, and i didn’t get clean and fix my life until November of 2016. Still can relate to this person’s story. Things that I certainly felt while I was cold and pan handling. Just interesting to hear someone from so long ago say things that still ring true today.

[@conorsheehan9929]

Glad you were able to pull yourself up . Stay well .

[@Roofers-Nail-Hardest]

I got clean in Nov 2016 too after 15 years of crack as well as fentanyl for the latter half of that time. 🙏

[@Jhony-cq8oq]

I can relate, been there done that.and like you with the help of God.iAm doing much better.I still stumble but I don't fall.

[@sreardonatpfg]

To my good fortune I can't relate. I'm elated that you where able to pull yourself out of that. God bless you sir, stay well.

[@miapdx503]

You are amazing. It takes a lot of courage and reserve to break free. It isn't just the dope...it's a whole lifestyle. You have to learn a new way of living. And you did that! Awesome 🌹

[@daniellewillis2767]

Pember's mustache is an act of courage in itself

[@bloochoob]

Like a hairy coat hanger dangling off his face, he’d have to walk through a door side ways

[@FactFeast]

Imagine if he met his moustachioed nemesis … there would be quite a tangle!

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

Looks like two big cigars glued to his face !

[@davidpryle3935]

He must have used the moustache as a duvet, when he was sleeping rough, passing himself off as a beggar.

[@ruth_southernstar]

Agreed

[@mazyarkanani6708]

You really capture the dark mood of the 19th Century …. I could swear you’re a time traveller from way back. You just got yourself a new subscriber ! 🤩

[@FactFeast]

Wow, thank you! It’s great you like the history 😀

[@bobcosmic]

It’s been a few weeks since I checked in but I’m glad once again to get my Sunday night treat!

[@moondancer4660]

I never miss an episode.😊

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[@bobcosmic]

@@FactFeast I’m listening while in bed if I fall asleep while listening to it that doesn’t mean it’s boring it means one of two things 1/ Your dulcet tones 2/ I’m absolutely exhausted. Thanks for your reply it’s appreciated 👊🏽

[@Ann65.]

​@@bobcosmic Me too, right now!! 😂

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

2:15 I love this guy’s descriptions.

[@danielreed4050]

Hmm I can't wait for more from these articles

[@amyw.watson879]

Thanks FF! You always deliver the best. I love it!

[@FactFeast]

That’s really kind of you to say 😊

[@stalag14]

Another riveting video. Thank you for sharing it.

[@FactFeast]

That’s great! Thank you for writing.

[@VictorTorres-pg3xy]

Really enjoying your story telling..You've just gotten another subscriber. Great Job

[@FactFeast]

Welcome to the channel! Thank you. I hope you enjoy.

[@moondancer4660]

Right up the street from my house there is a bridge which several people live under. In the summer they bathe whenever they get a chance I suppose. In the winter when they know it's going to be a cold night several people will get together and pool their money to rent a room to stay warm

[@bennymoreira1443]

Seems to me that history hasn’t finished it’s course, so sad.

[@sunnyadams5842]

​@@bennymoreira1443sad?

[@561ram]

This guy did pretty good begging out there. What he was making out there was good money at the time.

[@jaycristoval6155]

And he proved it's all a scam.....

[@561ram]

@@jaycristoval6155 oh I must of missed that... how did he do it?

[@surbon514]

Terrific account; thanks for posting! Can I just point out one thing, Houston Street is pronounced (HOW-stun) not like the city in Texas. That's where we get the neighborhood SoHo from (SOuth of HOuston)!

[@sunnyadams5842]

Correct. Thank you for mentioning that. I always want to, but this guy is SO much better at pronunciation than 99% of the other channel readers to whom I constantly read the riot act that I just have not yet found it in me to leave a correction comment. But I do believe this one is an actual healthy individual who might just appreciate the input and not cry because you hated on him- or some ridiculous thing!! 😂❤🎉

[@MegaLivingIt]

Loved the photos of the New York Tribune staff!

[@FactFeast]

It’s a great photo. Fine clothes!

[@sirbig8292]

Growing a moustache like this is one of my lifegoals.

[@YungJayCrb]

Right 😂😂

[@Brittanyisbrutal]

Love this channel ❤

[@FactFeast]

Fantastic! Thanks for being here.

[@bobcosmic]

You have excellent taste😉

[@janesykes4483]

❤ thank u 😊

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You're welcome 😊 Thanks for writing.

[@pam1574]

I love history, I'm so glad i stumbled upon your channel. Your narration is wonderful! New subscriber here, thank u sir!

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[@michaelparks6120]

I always give a homeless person whatever I have in my pocket....sometimes its been 2 dollars, sometimes 50 dollars.....those guys were so grateful, I cried a bit when I was out of sight.

[@MaximusMerideus]

Mike, are you very wealthy?

[@WhoDoUthinkUr]

I’d stop doing that. Fentanyl pills are going for a couple dollars a piece and it only takes one Pill to kill . You might be buying someone an Overdose. They are given Already free food, toiletries, Tents , bedding and clothing . From the very well funded Activists. As someone who has lived that Homeless life. I’m telling you it’s not helpful for most of them to do that . If you want to help them press you local government to Build Rehabs and Mental Institutions.

[@leeoliver424]

Why do you do this? You are enabling them….the money goes to drugs and alcohol and they would stab you in the back for five lousy bucks….be nice but not too nice…

[@died4us590]

I give to the people where i live to, and sometimes it depends on how much cash i have on me as well. Since the event of twenty twenty, i see more homeless, and it's gotta be rough in the winter. You can tell who is outside all the time, their skin is like leather, and very dark in the summer, but in the cold, their skin in the winter still looks the same, but very red. I wouldn't wish this on anybody. The guy going around begging in this story, he knows he has money and a warm bed, so he is just mocking those who are unfortunate enough to have to beg for real. To many people judge these people, but they don't realise it could be them one day. I don't have much money, but i carry cash, because i know that i will see someone in need. G-d has taken care of me, and i try to help those around me, because they are my neighbor who need help. G-d bless everyone.

[@jaycristoval6155]

Great virtue signaling!!! Jesus Christ himself said to shout your charity work from the rooftops and it doesn't count unless you get a video and post it..... even this journalist is proving it's a scam. He's only doing it for a story.

[@lizclarke8570]

Did Pember bring out a book on what he did. It would be a fantastic read!!!. Keep up the good work.

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

13:45 for a reporter he’s doing pretty damn good as a begger.

[@yassasloan7308]

It's funny to hear the same streets I walk today... Ave B, Canal, University, 14th, 6th Ave, Prince, The Bowery...😅

[@Kizzmypixel2023]

love watching and listening

[@FactFeast]

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[@portow]

Great video - small detail which drew me out of the story - it's pronounced "how-stun" street, not "hew-stun"

[@SellieM6970]

Those pictures of early Central Park!!! 😮😮😮❤

[@moondancer4660]

I don't understand about Stamps??

[@reneevasquez3540]

Coins were scarce during the time of the American Civil War . Postage stamps were used as a form of legal tender.

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

21:25 kind of sounds dangerous, but I don’t know the Bowery.

[@reneevasquez3540]

When I was a youngster (in the 50s and 60s the Bowery was a skid row). Cheap saloons, broken Thunderbird bottles littered the streets. Down and out men hanging out drinking booze out of paper bags. The air smelled of Cheap cigars and even cheaper booze. The atmosphere was one of despair and resignation. Never considered these people to be dangerous, just sad.

[@kaleahcollins4567]

Wow I've walked all the same places he did. I also know what it's like to sleep on a union Square Park bench. Summertime 😂

[@Khatoon170]

How are you doing sir . Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. We appreciate your great efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English as well. I looked up for meaning of slum is British slang from east end of London means “ room “ which involved to back slum around 1845 means black alley , street of poor people. Synonyms of slum ( low income neighborhood ) barrio , favela , public squalor , shanty town , tenement. Slum in dictionary means squalid overcrowded house . Squalid section of city , characterized by inferior living conditions and usually by overcrowding. There are still slums in Europe even in France rich European country, slum area emerged with Paris . In USA too in mid western cities such as Chicago, Detroit are infamous for their slums but this areas tend to have high crime , poor public schools and they tend to lack grocery stories . In Los Angeles thousand of families and children live in slum conditions. Manhattan slums in 19 th century, five points where current day lower east side , China town , civic center , districts converge was known as one of world most notorious slums . Corner of lower of Manhattan, built upon drained and was crime hidden filled with gang violence rundown tenement. Good luck to you your dearest ones .

[@FactFeast]

Thank you very much Khatoon.

[@kaleahcollins4567]

I love being a Newyorker

[@duncanself5111]

Just like modern America without the opioid crisis

[@samthunders3611]

Drugs..narcotics were legal you could buy them on drugstore shelves as tonics for toothaches exhaustion.anything Plus lovely Opium Dens

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

25:37 I’d say that’s about fifty bucks today, give or take a ten or so. Not too shabby but not great. This too is, Meh. Begging; better than stealing , but better to work. It’s all yours ( to decide) I work at begging people not to steal. ❤❤❤

[@bobzeepl]

Anyone? in all these late 1800s stories about the poor there are no black ppl mentioned (and no pitcures of them) - where were they?

[@MrArthoz]

I'm trying to understand the context of his begging...how much does 10 cents in that era worth today in comparison?

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

27:35 Amen, even in a lowly way. Just be sure you are ask forgiveness every so often, you beggers, you know who you are. Behold, As you Are, I was… … As I am, You Will Be, All my Love, ❤️‍🔥☠️❤️‍🔥

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

24:12 Can anyone in America today, who have lived as this man has perpetrated ( for the sake of journalism, so meh, okay.), living under these kind of “quality of life “ laws? That would be a rough ten years!!!

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

I'm about to start begging do you know how expensive the ny area is

[@CatharinePizzarello]

No difference from the way things are now in New York City. Did a survey all night in Central Park. It was intended to gather information to help homeless people. It was 18 degrees. Someone asked me later if the people were drunk or high. All the people l spoke to were drunk or high. I want to help, but I don't want to just help give them more of what got them into their situation in the first place.

[@janineskywalker527]

Why is it that the Police rarely showed kindness and compassion towards the down and out and homeless? J.

[@granolabean1]

Sounds like Washington or the whole of the United States these days.

[@ALICEY.SIMPSON]

The story's & picture's is horrible but true 😮😢😮😢

[@billlong9109]

Crime hasn't got better

[@francesbernard2445]

My great aunt and uncle and their eldest son Mr. and Mrs. Bokenfohr with only an ax they brought to New York were probable often being called dead beat NEw Yorkers too. Just like everyone else migrating to North America often too.

[@andrewburnett8743]

It woulda been cool if he went around and dished out the 2 dollars to actual homeless people

[@deeplorable2913]

why would he give his hard earned money away to beggers lol

[@hotstepper887]

What's changed?

[@deeppurple883]

For the majority in those day's it was a necessity to beg or die. It has changed, in our time it is done to fund many kinds of addiction. This will die out when all transactions are done by cards. Unless some bright spark comes up with a idea to get a app on their phone that accept small amounts unsolicited. Who knows what the future holds. ✌️

[@deeplorable2913]

they were alcoholics and heroin addicts then too

[@francisdec1615]

We have an app like that here in Sweden. It's called Swish. Here most homeless people are Gypsies from Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, and they beg because social security in their own countries is pretty poor.

[@user-ox2mz8ds7g]

I've been thinking of inventing an app like this. I could sell it to tradesmen and make my fortune. It would have to accept hundreds or thousands of £ thought.

[@Ashlin-f5d]

So not much changed 😮

[@kaleahcollins4567]

I'm a newyorker so if need help with pronunciation let me know

[@Thomas-n4r]

At least being homeless these days food is easier to get. What is a "stamp" is a ten cent stamp like a bill? 💵

[@mijiyoon5575]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@FactFeast]

Much appreciated Miji 😊

[@tempestvideos9834]

Course in how to complete a transient cover.

[@thehillbillygamer2183]

1860 to 1870 that was the time of the Great War of Northern aggression

[@spudwrencher9262]

Sounds like a modern day problem also.

[@turdferguson2]

The way he talks about himself is pretty funny

[@jabbahursty]

how-ston street. not you-ston street. you-ston is in texas

[@yassasloan7308]

in today's money, this dude made over 100 bux in one day

[@j3lny425]

An interesting time when stamps were used as currency.

[@ThomasWBaldwin]

I will appoint myself anything i want to be. stop me. bring it on. what fun! IRE!!!!

[@danholm4952]

Capitalism at its finest= time to get the guillotine out!

[@davidpryle3935]

The poor Irish always seem to turn up in the roughest parts of town, in these videos.

[@kielwilson9734]

2 bucks was a few days pay for a skilled laborer if not more that’s some good scratch haha

[@JohnGalt1960]

New York city is still à terrible place.

[@immrnoidall]

No exaggeration. There was crap dead animals and people everywhere .

[@lightgiver7311]

Sounds like NY today

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

The beggars are still around

[@thehillbillygamer2183]

I think this Englishman is a great rival of Jack London Jack London's an American who went to England and London and reported about all the slums and how awful things were to the American audience so this Englishman is going to do the same he's going to report to the English how awful it is in America and like slums and stuff and the five points and all that The Bowery Boys

[@kaleahcollins4567]

It's not pronounced as it's spelled it's Houston ( Haus ston)

[@bigshagg3815]

The aristocracy of beggardom 😂

[@RonFilco.9358]

I would have definitely been a tattoo artist back then... I had no idea that was a thing in the 1800s beyond the occasional merchant Marine or sailor. Learn something new everyday on KZbin 😊