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Lights and Shadows of New York Life

by James D. McCabe

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2I — The City of New York
  3. 3II — Descriptive and Statistical
  4. 4II — The Harbor of New York
  5. 5III — The City Government
  6. 6IV — “The Ring”
  7. 7V — Broadway
  8. 8VI — Society
  9. 9VII — Marriage and Death
  10. 10VIII — The Bowery
  11. 11IX — Public Squares
  12. 12X — The Fifth Avenue
  13. 13XI — Street Travel
  14. 14XII — Horace Greeley
  15. 15XIII — The Tombs
  16. 16XIV — The Press
  17. 17XV — Wall Street
  18. 18XVI — The Ferries
  19. 19XVII — The Hotels
  20. 20XVIII — Impostors
  21. 21XIX — Street Musicians
  22. 22XX — The Central Park
  23. 23XXI — The Detectives
  24. 24XXII — William B. Astor
  25. 25XXIII — Fashionable Shopping
  26. 26XXIV — Bleecker Street
  27. 27XXV — Cemeteries
  28. 28XXVI — The Clubs
  29. 29XXVII — The Five Points
  30. 30XXVIII — The Military
  31. 31XXIX — Nassau Street
  32. 32XXX — The Metropolitan Fire Department
  33. 33XXXI — The Business of New York
  34. 34XXXII — The Sabbath in New York
  35. 35XXXIII — The Post-Office
  36. 36XXXIV — A. T. Stewart
  37. 37XXXV — Places of Amusement
  38. 38XXXVI — The Markets
  39. 39XXXVII — The Churches
  40. 40XXXVIII — Boarding-House Life
  41. 41XXXIX — The Restaurants
  42. 42XL — The Cheap Lodging-Houses
  43. 43XLI — The Libraries
  44. 44XLII — Professional Men
  45. 45XLIII — Professional Criminals
  46. 46XLIV — The Pawnbrokers
  47. 47XLV — The Beer-Gardens
  48. 48XLVI — James Fisk Jr.
  49. 49XLVII — Trinity Church
  50. 50XLVIII — The Holidays
  51. 51XLIX — The Social Evil
  52. 52L — Child Murder
  53. 53Li. the East River Islands and Their Institutions
  54. 54LII — Benevolent and Charitable Institutions
  55. 55LIII — Henry Ward Beecher
  56. 56LIV — Black-Mailing
  57. 57LV — Female Sharpers
  58. 58LVI — Educational Establishments
  59. 59LVII — Jerome Park
  60. 60LVIII — Commodore Vanderbilt
  61. 61LIX — The Bummers
  62. 62LX — Tenement House Life
  63. 63LXI — Chatham Street
  64. 64LXII — James Gordon Bennett
  65. 65LXIII — Drunkenness
  66. 66LXIV — What It Costs to Live in New York
  67. 67LXV — Gambling
  68. 68LXVI — Peter Cooper
  69. 69LXVII — The “Heathen Chinee”
  70. 70LXVIII — Street Children
  71. 71LXIX — Swindlers
  72. 72LXX — Robert Bonner
  73. 73LXXI — Public Buildings
  74. 74LXXII — Patent Divorces
  75. 75LXXIII — The Croton Water Works
  76. 76LXXIV — Excursions
  77. 77LXXV — Sailors in New York
  78. 78LXXVI — The Ballet
  79. 79LXXVII — The Poor of New York
  80. 80LXXVIII — Quack Doctors
  81. 81LXXIX — Young Men’s Christian Association
  82. 82LXXX — Castle Garden
  83. 83LXXXI — Working Women
  84. 84LXXXII — Street Venders
  85. 85LXXXIII — The Wharves
  86. 86LXXXIV — The Morgue
  87. 87LXXXV — The Custom House
  88. 88LXXXVI — Missing

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