Winter Quarters of the canal boats in the East River, down by Old Slip. Their owners live in them. "Canallers Town."
Canal Boats at Coenties Slip
Their playground a truck -- Baxter Street.
Shanty town.
Hunting River Thieves.
The Church Street Station Lodging-room, in which I [Jacob A. Riis] was robbed.
A Fourth Ward Colony in the Bad Old Days.
The East River Park.
The Short Tail Gang (Corlears Hook) Pier at foot of Jackson Street, now Corlears Hook Park. Photographed from the Police Boat.
The Children's Christmas Tree.
Police Station Lodgers 9. Women in the Elizabeth Street Station.
[Group of young people in row boats.]
[Cramped living quarters.]
Court at No. 24 Baxter Street.