A guided tour of New York around 1872, from the harbour and Broadway to Fifth Avenue mansions, the Bowery and the city’s slums. McCabe covers society, street travel, public squares, the Tweed Ring and city government, newspaper men such as Horace Greeley, missions and charities, and the con men, gamblers and criminals who preyed on visitors.
A lively, sometimes sensational portrait of Gilded Age Manhattan, full of detail for historians and curious readers. Download the free EPUB.