Airshaft.
One Family's Outlook on the Airshaft. The Mother said, "Our Daughter does not care to come Home to Sleep."
Italian flat in South Fifth Ave.
Italian flat in South Fifth Avenue.
[Street Scene.]
"The Sun never enters here."
Upstairs in Blindman's Alley.
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.
[Lower East Side Street Scene.]
Street Arabs in night-quarters -- Mulberry Street.
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.
36-36 1/2 Baxter Street as the place was before the rear tenement was torn down by Board of Health in 1897 under the Tenement House Law.
Nibsy's Alley at 47 1/2 Crosby Street, torn down in the Fall of 1895.
Manhattan
Jacob A. Riis
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