Scary NYC neighborhood, 1888 Cory Doctorow,...

Scary NYC neighborhood, 1888
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Here’s a photo from Jacob Riis’s 1890 clas­sic “How the Other Half Lives,” “an early publication… doc­u­ment­ing squalid liv­ing con­di­tions in New York City slums in the 1880s.” It shows “Ban­dit’s Roost, at 59½ Mul­ber­ry Street (Mul­ber­ry…

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