An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 4, 2024
- April 3, 2024
- April 2, 2024
- April 1, 2024
- March 31, 2024
- March 30, 2024
- March 29, 2024
June 16, 2013 02:23 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ByolMIPCeJg/story01.htm
Scary NYC neighborhood,1888
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 "Bandits Roost, at 59 Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend), was the most crime-ridden, dangerous part of all New York City." Those guys are clearly total bad-asses.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ByolMIPCeJg/story01.htm
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article