[Airshaft.]

One Family's Outlook on the Airshaft. The Mother said, "Our Daughter does not care to come Home to Sleep."

[Street Scene.]

"The Sun never enters here."

[Lower East Side Street Scene.]

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.

Upstairs in Blindman's Alley.

Upstairs in Blindman's Alley.

"The Sun never enters here."

Blindman's Alley, 22 Cherry Street.

Blindman's Alley, 22 Cherry Street.

"The Sun never enters here."

Upstairs in Blindman's Alley.

Nibsy's Alley at 47 1/2 Crosby Street, torn down in the Fall of 1895.

Upstairs in Blindman's Alley.

Typical Tenement Fire escape, serving as an extension of the "flat" -- Allen 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.

Typical Tenement Fire escape, serving as an extension of the "flat" -- Allen Street.

In a Ludlow Street tenement lodging cellar.