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How the Other Half Lives (1971) 64: On hot summer nights it is no rare experience [...] to find the hallways [of tenements] occupied by rows of ‘sitters,’ tramps whom laziness or hard luck has prevented from earning enough by their day’s ‘labor’ to pay the admission fee to a stale-beer dive, and who have their reasons for declining the hospitality of the police station lodging-room. How the Other Half Lives 68: The old ‘Africa,’ west of Broadway [...] is rapidly changing its character. How the Other Half Lives 150: The colored citizen whom this year’s census man found in his Ninety-ninth Street ‘flat’ is a very different individual from the ‘nigger’ his predecessor counted in the black-and-tan slums of Thompson and Sullivan Streets. [Ibid.] 213: The proprietor of one of the most disreputable Black-and-Tan dives and dancing-hells to be found anywhere. How the Other Half Lives 196: The Street Arab has all the faults and all the virtues of the lawless life he leads. Vagabond that he is, acknowledging no authority and owing no allegiance to anybody or anything, with his grimy fist raised against society whenever it tries to coerce him, he is as bright and sharp as the weasel, which, among all the predatory beasts, he most resembles. How the Other Half Lives 89: About election time, especially in Presidential elections, the lodging-houses come out strong on the side of the political boss who has the biggest ‘barrel’. How the Other Half Lives 212: The Fourth Ward points with pride to the honorable record of the conductors of its ‘Tub of Blood,’ and a dozen bar-rooms with less startling titles. How the Other Half Lives 73: With a swinging blow of his club he knocked the faucet out of the keg and the half-filled can from the boss hag’s hand. How the Other Half Lives 246: The thief is infinitely easier to deal with than the pauper, because the very fact of his being a thief presupposes some bottom to the man. How the Other Half Lives 218: The common ‘bruiser’ of a more phlegmatic clime. How the Other Half Lives 38: A man lies dead in the hospital who was cut to pieces in a ‘can racket’ in the alley on Sunday. [Ibid.] 226: Once pitched upon, its occupation by the gang, with its ear-mark of nightly symposiums, ‘can rackets’ in the slang of the street, is the signal for the rapid deterioration of the tenement, if that is possible. How the Other Half Lives 16: Not until five years after did the department succeed at last in ousting the ‘cave-dwellers’ and closing some five hundred and fifty cellars. How the Other Half Lives 98: A specimen of celestial logic. How the Other Half Lives 116: Will he give eighty cents? Sixty? Fifty? So help him, they are dirt cheap at that. How the Other Half Lives 92: All attempts to make an effective Christian of John Chinaman will remain abortive in this generation. How the Other Half Lives 57: The impulse that makes the Polish Jew coop himself up in his den with the thermometer at stewing heat. How the Other Half Lives 64: Here is a ‘flat’ of ‘parlor’ and two pitch-dark coops called bedrooms. How the Other Half Lives 229: Eighteen ‘professional crackesmen,’ between nine and fifteen years old, who had been caught with burglars’ tools. How the Other Half Lives 66: The ‘old man,’ who lived in the corner coop, [...] had been taken to the ‘crazy house.’. How the Other Half Lives 95: From the teeming tenements [...] come the white slaves of its dens of vice and their infernal drug [...] a subtler poison than ever the stalebeer dives knew, or the ‘sudden death’ of the Old Brewery. How the Other Half Lives 218: A successful raid on the grocer’s till is a good mark, ‘doing up’ a policeman cause for promotion. How the Other Half Lives 230: ‘Floaters’ come ashore every now and then with pockets turned inside out, not always evidence of a post-mortem inspection by dock-rats. How the Other Half Lives 24: The Irishman [...] shares his lodging with perfect impartiality with the Italian, the Greek, and the ‘Dutchman.’. How the Other Half Lives 22: ‘Damma, man!’ he said: ‘if you speaka thata way to me, I fira you and your things in the streeta.’ And the frightened Italian paid the rent. How the Other Half Lives 53: The community hears [...] of another Italian affray, a man stabbed in a quarrel, dead or dying, and the police know that ‘he’ has been fixed, and the account squared. How the Other Half Lives 230: ‘Floaters’ come ashore every now and then with pockets turned inside out. How the Other Half Lives 204: The Street Arab puts his whole little soul into what interests him [...] whether it be pulverizing a rival [...] or attending at the ‘gospel shop’ on Sundays. How the Other Half Lives 230: By day they loaf in the corner-groggeries. How the Other Half Lives 217: The ‘growler’ stood at the cradle of the tough [...] From the moment he, almost a baby, for the first time carries the growler for beer, he is never out of its reach, and the two soon form a partnership that lasts through life. How the Other Half Lives 225: When it comes to Hell’s Kitchen, [...] and further down First Avenue in ‘the Village,’ the Rag Gang and its allies have no need of fearing treachery. How the Other Half Lives 161: Even across the Harlem River, Frog Hollow challenges the admiration of the earlier slums for the boldness and pernicious activity of its home gang.