The Old Style of Tenements, with Yards.
[Thompson Street, bird's eye view.]
It costs a Dallar a Month to sleep in the Sheds.
Typical Tenement Fire escape, serving as an extension of the "flat" -- Allen Street.
Italian flat in South Fifth Avenue.
Bone Alley.
Outlawed rear tenements from Astor Memorial School, destroyed in 1897 by Board of Health.
The Mott Street Barracks.
Children in "The Ship," destroyed by B. of Health in 1897, after the visit of Roosevelt & myself [Jacob A. Riis] there.
Tenement House Yard.
36-36 1/2 Baxter St. as the place was before rear ten. was torn down by Board of Health in 1897 under the Tenement House Law.