Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement life in New York City

Merry Christmas in the Tenements.
Out of Mulberry Street
Stories of tenement life in New York City
By Jacob A. Riis Author of “How the Other Half Lives,” “The Children of the Poor,” etc.
New York The Century Co. 1898
Copyright, 1897, 1898, By The Century Co.
The De Vinne Press.


Since I wrote “How the Other Half Lives” I have been asked many times upon what basis of experience, of fact, I built that account of life in New York tenements. These stories contain the answer. They are from the daily grist of the police hopper in Mulberry street, at which I have been grinding for twenty years. They are reprinted from the columns of my newspaper, and from the magazines as a contribution to the discussion of the lives and homes of the poor, which in recent years has done much to better their lot, and is yet to do much more when we have all come to understand each other. In this discussion only facts are of value, and these stories are true. In the few instances in which I have taken the ordering of events into my own hands, it is chiefly their sequence with which I have interfered. The facts themselves remain as I found them.
J. A. R.
301 Mulberry Street.