Night Side of New York

by Various

Essays & Short Works Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

22 chapters7h 22mEnglish1866

About this book

This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after dark, with stops along the way to vividly depict scenes ranging from the splendid to the squalid - but focusing largely on the latter! (Summary by Grant Hurlock)

Chapters (22)

101 - A Fashionable Club House

1020

202 - The Fashionable Concert Saloon

768

303 - Saturday Night at a Pawnbroker's

1075

404 - The Cheap Theatre - "444"

779

505 - A Cock Pit

976

606 - At a Free and Easy

903

707 - The Dance Houses

1577

808 - The Police Stations

2405

909 - The Tombs on Sunday Morning

646

1010 - The Markets at Night

1017

1111 - Where Germans Most Do Congregate

882

1212 - A Fashionable Gambling House

506

1313 - Thieves, Counterfeiters, Confidence Operators, Etc.

1385

1414 - Haunts of the Actors

1610

1515 - Our All Night Eating Houses - By a Flunkey

1790

1616 - The Pugilists

1340

1717 - The "Mediums"

1454

1818 - The Lairs of Misery and Crime

1543

1919 - The Newspapers

799

2020 - The River Thieves

1468

2121 - An Arion Ball

1570

2222 - A Saturday Night at the Old Bowery

1007

Night Side of New York

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Chapters (22)

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