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Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street is a black and white photograph produced by Danish-American photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis in 1888. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The photograph was possibly not taken by Riis but instead by one of his assistant photographers, Henry G. Piffard or Richard Hoe Lawrence. [ 3 ]
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street (1888) by Jacob Riis, from How the Other Half Lives. This portrays the infamous Mulberry Bend, which was transformed into Mulberry Park in 1897 due to Riis's efforts The Trench in Potter's Field (1890) by Jacob Riis. Laborers loading coffins into an open trench at the city burial ground on Hart's Island.
[3] The Bend is the site of Riis's 1888 photograph, Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street. [4] [5] Photographer and social activist Jacob A. Riis, "friend of the tenement house children," [6] campaigned for the creation of the park.
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street, 1888 photograph by Jacob Riis. 21 Baxter Street: The Baxter Street Dudes were a New York teenage street gang, mostly of former newsboys and bootblacks, who ran a makeshift theater with stolen and salvaged equipment, props and costumes in the basement of a dive bar at 21 Baxter Street during the 1870s.
A new family-run diner hoping to give back to the community will soon open its doors in Centre County. The Red Roost Diner plans to officially welcome customers starting Monday, Jan. 27, at 807 ...
Original Cover of 1890 edition Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street (1888). How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street 1888 Not on view Medium Gelatin silver print, printed 1958 Dimensions 19 3/16 × 15 1/2" (48.7 × 39.4 cm) Credit Gift of the Museum of the City of New York Object number 326.1959 Department Photography
The U.S. Department of Transportation said the Federal Highway Administration has "terminated approval" of New York City's congestion pricing plan, the first of its kind in the nation, which went ...