Introductory material
Reading edition
General View of New York City, showing the Bridge connecting it with Brooklyn Frontispiece.
Offices of the Tribune, Times, and World 8
Grand Central Railway Depot 9
First Settlement of New York 37
New York in 1664 45
Broadway, looking up from Exchange Place 53
The City Hall Park in 1869 56
The Harbor of New York, as seen from the Narrows 60
A. Oakey Hall, Mayor of New York 81
William M. Tweed 82
The New County Court House 83
The Robbery of the Vouchers from the Comptroller’s Office 94
Richard B. Connolly 104
Peter B. Sweeny 105
Broadway, at the corner of Ann street 124
A. T. Stewart’s Wholesale Store 125
New York Life Insurance Company’s building, corner of Broadway and Leonard street 127
Broadway, as seen from the St. Nicholas Hotel 129
Saturday Afternoon Concert at Central Park 132
A Fashionable Promenade on Fifth avenue 137
The German 165
Female Prisoners in the Fourth Police Station 176
A Winter Night Scene in a Police Station 181
The Bowery 189
The City Hall Park 198
The Washington Statue in Union Square 201
Fifth avenue, near Twenty-first street 205
Junction of the Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, showing the new residence of A. T. Stewart, Esq 209
New Palace-car for City travel, in use on the Third avenue line 213
Tunnel under Broadway 223
Horace Greeley 231
The Tombs 233
The Bridge of Sighs 234
Interior of Male Prison 235
The Prison Chapel 237
Court of Special Sessions 240
“Black Maria” 243
Printing House Square 246
The Herald Office 249
Wall street 259
United States Sub-treasury 261
The Stock Exchange 265
The New York Stock Exchange Board in Session 267
The Park Bank, Broadway 278
Scene in the Gold Room—Black Friday 291
Broad street on Black Friday 296
The Astor House 305
St. Nicholas Hotel 307
Fifth avenue Hotel 310
The Soldier Minstrel 323
View from the Upper Terrace 333
Foot-bridge in Central Park 335
The Marble Arch 338
Vine-covered Walk, overlooking the Mall 341
The Terrace, as seen from the Lake 344
View on the Central Lake 346
A Female Shoplifter 376
A. T. Stewart’s Retail Store 382
Lord and Taylor’s Dry Goods Store 384
A Five Points Rum Shop 399
A Five Points Lodging Cellar 407
The Ladies’ Five Points Mission 413
The Howard Mission (as it will appear when completed) 419
Nassau street 427
Fire Alarm Signal-box 435
A Fire in New York 438
The Old Post-office 449
The New Post-office 457
Booth’s Theatre 471
Grand Opera House 474
Academy of Music 477
The Old Bowery Theatre 478
Washington Market 488
The New St. Patrick’s Cathedral 496
Union Square 505
Lafayette Place 514
Clinton Hall 517
The occasional fate of New York Thieves 525
The River Thieves 537
A Fence Store in Chatham street 541
The Rough’s Paradise 543
The Atlantic Garden 552
James Fisk, Jr 557
Jay Gould 560
Trinity Church 569
New Year’s Calls 575
The result of following a Street Walker 592
Noonday Prayer Meeting at Water street Home 599
Harry Hill’s Dance House 602
Scene in the Magdalen Asylum 616
Residence of the Keeper of the Almshouse 632
Small-pox Hospital 633
Charity Hospital 634
New York Penitentiary 635
Guard-boats 636
Almshouse 637
The Workhouse 639
House of Refuge: Randall’s Island 642
Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane 649
St. Luke’s Hospital 650
Institution for the Blind 652
Henry Ward Beecher 657
A New York Free School 667
The Free College of New York 669
University of New York 672
Columbia College 673
The Cooper Institute 674
Cornelius Vanderbilt 679
A New York Tenement House 684
An inside View of a Tenement House 688
Chatham Square 700
James Gordon Bennett 705
A Female Drinker 708
A First-class Gambling House 717
The Skin Game 723
Peter Cooper 733
Chinese Candy Dealer 736
The Newsboys 739
Attack on a Swindler 746
A Stranger’s Exit from a “Cheap John Shop” 752
The Pocket-book Game 754
Robert Bonner 758
The City Hall 760
Tammany Hall 763
National Academy of Design 764
Steinway & Son’s Piano Factory 765
The High Bridge 775
The Fifth avenue Reservoir 776
U. S. Navy Yard, Brooklyn 779
West Point 780
New York Seamen’s Exchange Building 786
The Ballet 790
The Poor in Winter 797
The City Missionary 800
Young Men’s Christian Association Hall 812
The Library 814
The Battery and Castle Garden 817
Emigrant Hospital 819
The Sewing-girl’s Home 823
Stewart’s Home for Working Women 829
Street Venders 832
Shoe Latchets 832
“Glass put in!” 832
Balloon Man 832
Boat Stores 836
The Morgue 840
The Custom House 844
The Fate of Hundreds of Young Men 849
