Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkLuc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. |
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Infant-mortality rates show an equally dramatic divergence: 109.58 for single
dwellings, 204.54 for tenements containing rear buildings. (There are no similar
surveys differentiating between levels above or below ground.) The sources of ...
This was a warren of nearly five hundred tenement buildings between Greenwich
Village and Canal Street, an assemblage of ancient frame dwellings that
collectively resembled a shantytown built from rubbish. Their inhabitants were
mostly ...
While the air shaft undeniably introduced a minimum of oxygen into the blind
areas of buildings, it did little else. Even when two adjacent houses were so
equipped and their shafts happened to be contiguously positioned, the resulting
hole ...
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Comentariu Utilizator - datrappert - LibraryThingIt took me much longer than it should have to finish this book, because I was constantly putting it down to look up people on Wikipedia or to track down referenced books on Project Gutenberg or ... Citiți recenzia completă
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Comentariu Utilizator - EricCostello - LibraryThingA generally good book, with a handful of flaws. Sante, in this volume, gives an oversight of what New York City was like from roughly the 1830s to the end of World War I, going through various aspects ... Citiți recenzia completă
Cuprins
xxv | |
Part 2 Sporting Life | ciii |
Part 3 The Arm | ccxxxix |
Part 4 The Invisible City | 107 |
Afterword | 363 |
A Note on Sources | 381 |
Notes | 391 |
Index | 403 |