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.
A Fourth Ward Colony in the Bad Old Days.
[Cramped living quarters.]
Hunting River Thieves.
Police Station Lodgers 9. Women in the Elizabeth Street Station.
Safe from the Cop in West Side playground.
The Short Tail Gang (Corlears Hook) Pier at foot of Jackson Street, now Corlears Hook Park. Photographed from the Police Boat.
The East River Park.
[Group of young people in row boats.]
Chinatown. The official organ of the colony.
The Church Street Station Lodging-room, in which I [Jacob A. Riis] was robbed.