The Empire City, Or, New York by Day and Night
Author : George Lippard
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Page : 205 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1850
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Author : George Lippard
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Page : 205 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1850
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Author : George Lippard
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 1850
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Author : George Lippard
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231109093
This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul Auster and James Baldwin.
Author : William Gilmore Simms
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1837
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ISBN : 9784902708158
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 1955
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Author : Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 039334133X
"A true story more incredible than fiction." —Kevin Baker, author of Striver's Row In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year. Bad nights left him with more than a dozen scars and over a decade in prisons from the Tombs and Sing Sing to the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he reunited with another inmate, his father. The child of Irish and Chinese immigrants, Appo grew up in the notorious Five Points and Chinatown neighborhoods. He rose as an exemplar of the "good fellow," a criminal who relied on wile, who followed a code of loyalty even in his world of deception. Here is the underworld of the New York that gave us Edith Wharton, Boss Tweed, Central Park, and the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1883
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Author : May Agnes Fleming
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 1876
Category : American fiction
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Author : Bruce Chadwick
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1250082595
Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times as high. The staggering amount of crime threatened to topple a city that was experiencing meteoric growth and striving to become one of the most spectacular in America. For the first time, award-winning historian Bruce Chadwick examines how rampant violence led to the founding of the first professional police force in New York City. Chadwick brings readers into the bloody and violent city, where race relations and an influx of immigrants boiled over into riots, street gangs roved through town with abandon, and thousands of bars, prostitutes, and gambling emporiums clogged the streets. The drive to establish law and order and protect the city involved some of New York’s biggest personalities, including mayor Fernando Wood, police chief Fred Tallmadge, and journalist Walt Whitman. Law and Disorder is a must read for fans of New York history and those interested in how the first police force, untrained and untested, battled to maintain law and order.