Out of Mulberry Street
Author: first_name: Jacob A.
last_name: Riis
Language: English
Year: 1898

These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving immigrants crammed into wretched fire-prone tenements. Riis writes compassionately of these people who were nevertheless incredibly resilient and ever aspiring to a better life; of children, lovers, parents, policemen and firemen; of moments of joy, holidays, tragedies, and much more. –Lee Smalley

“Since I wrote ‘How the Other Half Lives’ I have been asked man