[Airshaft.]
One Family's Outlook on the Airshaft. The Mother said, "Our Daughter does not care to come Home to Sleep."
"The Sun never enters here."
Blindman's Alley, 22 Cherry Street.
Shoemaker working in a house in the yard of 219 Broome Street, which the landlord built when the sanitary police put him out of the basement. Clatterpole sticks up through his house. Rent $12 a month.
[Street Scene.]
Upstairs in Blindman's Alley.
Typical Tenement Fire escape, serving as an extension of the "flat" -- Allen Street.
Nibsy's Alley at 47 1/2 Crosby Street, torn down in the Fall of 1895.
Bottle Alley Mulberry Bend in its worst days, picture used as evidence in murder case -- cross on stairs shows where murderer stood and did shooting.
In a Ludlow Street tenement lodging cellar.
Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend, now destroyed.
An old rear-tenement in Roosevelt Street.