New York, Old house (torn down) in Bleeker Street, on a back lot between Mercer and Greene Streets.

"The Barracks" -- Mott Street between Bleeker and Houston.

"The Barracks" -- Mott Street between Bleeker and Houston.

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.

The last Mulberry -- said to be one of the old trees -- in yard of 41, behind the old Homestead. It isn't. Is probably an old [last word illegible].

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.

Cat Alley, when it was being torn down.

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

Cat Alley, when the rear tenements were torn down in the Elm Street widening (1898?).

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

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.

Ground plan of a Cherry Street block showing crowding on lot.

Ground plan of a Cherry Street block showing crowding on lot.

The last Mulberry -- said to be one of the old trees -- in yard of 41, behind the old Homestead. It isn't. Is probably an old [last word illegible].

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

Cat Alley, when it was being torn down.

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.

Cat Alley, when the rear tenements were torn down in the Elm Street widening.

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

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