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

I.  THE CITY OF NEW YORK

I.  HISTORICAL.

On the morning of the 1st of May, 1607, there knelt at the chancel of the old church of St. Ethelburge, in Bishopsgate street, London, to receive the sacrament, a man of noble and commanding presence, with a broad intellectual forehead, short, close hair, and a countenance full of the dignity and courtly bearing of an honorable gentleman.  His dress bespoke him a sailor, and such he was.  Immediately upon receiving the sacrament, he hastened from the church to the Thames, where a boat was in waiting to convey him to a vessel lying in the stream.  But little time was lost after his arrival on board, and soon the ship was gliding down the river.  The man was an Englishman by birth and training, a seaman by education, and one of those daring explorers of the time who yearned to win fame by discovering the new route to India.  His name was Henry Hudson, and he had been employed by “certain worshipful merchants of London” to go in search of a North-east passage to India, around the Arctic shores