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- Life in the "Fifth Avenue" (Leisure Hour, 1860)
- One snippet should suffice to show the trend of this British look at New York living: "The interior of the houses of fashionable Americans displays an equal absence of good taste. Large, gorgeous and gaudy, they are utterly destitute of comfort, and seem as if designed to be used only on formal occasions."
- Open Letters from New York, by Raymond Westbrook
(Atlantic Monthly, 1878)
- A Day on the Docks
(Scribners, 1879B)
- Music and Musicians in New York
(Harper's Monthly, 1881A)
- The Old New York Volunteer Fire Department
(Harper's Monthly, 1881A)
- Opera in New York
(Century Magazine, 1882A)
- Opera in New York (cont'd), by Richard Grant White
(Century Magazine, 1882B)
- The Wilson Industrial School and Mission
(Harper's Monthly, 1882A)
- An asylum for poor girls of New York.
- The Architectural League of New York, by Roger Riordan
(Century Magazine, 1883A)
- New York as a Field for Fiction, by H.C. Bunner
(Century Magazine, 1883B)
- Old New York and Its Houses, by Richard Grant White
(Century Magazine, 1883B)
- Will New York Be the Final World Metropolis? by William C. Conant
(Century Magazine, 1883B)
- This article defines a "metropolis" as the heart and brain of a country, "to which both expression and effect are given to the genius and character of a nation."
- The Typical New Yorker
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1886)
- An American looks at the "typical" self-made commercial man that is the 19th century New Yorker.
- Riding in New York
(Harper's Monthly, 1887B)
- Public Relief
(Century Magazine, 1890B)
- The Buffalo, NY "Guard of Honor" Charity.
- The Century Club, by A.R. Macdonough
(Century Magazine, 1891A)
- A New York club for art and artists. Interestingly, if you want to look this up today, you'll need to look for "The Century Association," a club that evolved out of "The Sketch Club," but in 1891 this was clearly known as "The Century Club."
- New York as a Historic Town
(Century Magazine, 1891A)
- The New York of the Future
(Century Magazine, 1891B)
- "Personal Intelligence" Fifty Years Ago, by Ellen Mackay Hutchinson
(Harper's Monthly, 1891A)
- Snippets from the New York publication The Corsair of 1839-1840.
- Parks and Playgrounds for Children
(Century Magazine, 1892A)
- The New York Society for Parks and Playgrounds for Children, incorporated in 1890.
- The Players Club, by Brander Matthews
(Century Magazine, 1892A)
- A club for members of the stage (actors, managers and dramatists).
- Picturesque New York, by M.G. van Rensselaer
(Century Magazine, 1893A)
- Fifth Avenue, by M.G. van Rensselaer
(Century Magazine, 1894A)
- Playgrounds for City Schools, by Jacob A. Riis
(Century Magazine, 1894B)
- The Cheaper City [London vs. New York], by Elizabeth L. Banks (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1895)
- Which city is cheaper to live in, London or New York? People still ask this question today; this article comes down on the side of New York.
- People in New York, by M.G. Van Rensselaer
(Century Magazine, 1895A)
- Conducting a Great Hotel, by John Gilmer Speed (Ladies Home Journal, 1896)
- A look at the management of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York.
- Feeding a City Like New York, by John Gilmer Speed (Ladies Home Journal, 1896)
- This article begins with the question of how long New York could feed its population if it were suddenly cut off from supplies (four months).
- Places in New York, by M.G. van Rensselaer
(Century Magazine, 1897A)
- Though it sounds as if this might be an article for tourists, it actually offers an in-depth look at various districts and neighborhoods of New York and the way life is lived therein.
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Poverty & Tenement Living
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- Plans for Tenement Houses
(Scribner's, 1879B)
- New designs for tenements in New York, with the goal of providing more space, light and air.
- A Great Charity Reform
(Century Magazine, 1882B)
- Efforts to deal with pauperism in New York.
- The Hudson River Night-Boat
(Pictorial Museum of Sport & Adventure, ca. 1890)
- Night travel on a "floating palace" on the Hudson.
- The Bowery, by Julian Ralph
(Century Magazine, 1892A)
- "The most interesting thoroughfare in America."
- Charitable Reform of High Public Value
(Century Magazine, 1892A)
- A look at the State Charities Aid Assoc. of New York.
- Some Tenement-House Evils, by Lillian W. Betts
(Century Magazine, 1893A)
- Educating poor children in New York.
- A Light in Dark Places: A Study of the Better New York, by Jacob A. Riis
(Century Magazine, 1897A)
- Reforms in New York's slums and tenements.
- Places in New York, by M.G. van Rensselaer
(Century Magazine, 1897A)
- Though it sounds as if this might be an article for tourists, it actually offers an in-depth look at various districts and neighborhoods of New York and the way life is lived therein.
- Merry Christmas in the Tenements, by Jacob Riis (Century Magazine, 1898A)
- A charming look at how Christmas is celebrated by members of many different ethnic groups (and especially the children) in the New York tenements.
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Ethnic Groups in New York
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- Italian Life in New York
(Harper's Monthly, 1881A)
- The Jews in New York, by Richard Wheatley
(Century Magazine, 1892A)
- An in-depth look at Jewish life, culture, customs and synagogues in New York City.
- The Chinese of New York, by Helen F. Clark
(Century Magazine, 1897A)
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- The Corporation of New York
(Leisure Hour, 1860)
- A Great Charity Reform
(Century Magazine, 1882B)
- Efforts to deal with pauperism in New York.
- Phases of State Legislation, by Theodore Roosevelt
(Century Magazine, 1885A)
- Legislation in the state of New York.
- Machine Politics in New York City, by Theodore Roosevelt
(Century Magazine, 1887A)
- Should There Be an "Aristocracy of Criminals"?
(Century Magazine, 1889A)
- A look at how the New York prison system is managed.
- Tammany Hall, by Henry Childs Merwin
(Atlantic Monthly, 1894)
- Blackmail as a Heritage, by C.C. Buel
(Century Magazine, 1895A)
- A look at New York politics, subtitled "New York's legacy from colonial days."
- A Chapter of Municipal Folly, by A.C. Bernheim
(Century Magazine, 1895B)
- "The squandering of New York's public franchises."
- Election Day in New York, by Ernest Ingersoll
(Century Magazine, 1897A)
- See also
- • Sites & Buildings in New York City
- • New York State
- • New York History
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