Mulberry Street

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Dear readers,

Out of Mulberry Street by Jacob A. Riis is about the lives of the poor living on Mulberry Street in New York in the later 1800s. The book was published in 1897.

Mulberry Street today is very different. Watch this Youtube video shot in 2010.

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Merry Christmas in the Tenements.

Preface



Since I wrote "How the Other Half Lives" I have been asked many times upon what basis of experience, of fact, I built that account of life in New York tenements. These stories contain the answer. They are from the daily grist of the police hopper in Mulberry street, at which I have been grinding for twenty years. They are reprinted from the columns of my newspaper, and from the magazines as a contribution to the discussion of the lives and homes of the poor, which in recent years has done much to better their lot, and is yet to do much more when we have all come to understand each other. In this discussion only facts are of value, and these stories are true. In the few instances in which I have taken the ordering of events into my own hands, it is chiefly their sequence with which I have interfered. The facts themselves remain as I found them.

J. A. R.

301 MULBERRY STREET.