The editor of Puck strolls from a Manhattan slum corner where organ-grinders play to the old roads running up to Tubby Hook, through the Bowery and its Bohemia, and out into the suburban paths of New Jersey. Six sketches mix observation, memory and quiet humour, defending the city’s poor and its vanishing country corners against complaining newspaper letter-writers.
Affectionate period pieces for anyone who loves old New York, illustrated in the original by A. B. Frost and others. Download the free EPUB.