A Horrific Night in a Filthy 1800s New York Flophouse (Lodging Houses for the Poor)

Manhattan in the 1800s was a crime infested living hell and so were the places to sleep! This was the 'Gangs of New York' era city that one journalist (Arthur Pember) decided to report on (after dark) when he accompanied a police detective on a visit to some of the city's worst criminal dens to meet some of its most infamous characters. This is his genuine account of life on the notorious streets of New York. Many immigrants and the poor lived in cheap and nasty 'flophouses' or lodging houses. Prices varied as much as standards, and the conditions of the cheapest in the city's Fourth Ward were simply terrible.

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CC BY - Bellevue Hospital New York City by Wellcome Collection
CC BY-SA - The Bowery Lodge at 81 Bowery between Hester Street and the approaches to the Manhattan Bridge was built c.1901 by Beyond My Ken

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