After How the Other Half Lives, readers asked Riis what experience lay behind it. These stories are his answer, drawn from twenty years of police reporting in Mulberry Street: Christmas in the tenements, a girl named Liza, a father and son called Dubourque, a boy’s game of jacks, a heathen baby and other glimpses of the poor of the Lower East Side.
Compassionate sketches by the journalist whose work helped reform New York’s slums. Download the free EPUB.