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| Foreword | [ix] |
| The City of My Dreams | [1] |
| The City Awakes | [5] |
| The Waterfront | [9] |
| The Log of a Harbor Pilot | [14] |
| Bums | [34] |
| The Michael J. Powers Association | [44] |
| The Fire | [56] |
| The Car Yard | [68] |
| The Flight of Pigeons | [74] |
| On Being Poor | [77] |
| Six O’clock | [81] |
| The Toilers of the Tenements | [85] |
| The End of a Vacation | [100] |
| The Track Walker | [104] |
| The Realization of an Ideal | [108] |
| The Pushcart Man | [112] |
| A Vanished Seaside Resort | [119] |
| The Bread-Line | [129] |
| Our Red Slayer | [133] |
| Whence the Song | [138] |
| Characters | [156] |
| The Beauty of Life | [170] |
| A Wayplace of the Fallen | [173] |
| Hell’s Kitchen | [184] |
| A Certain Oil Refinery | [200] |
| The Bowery Mission | [207] |
| The Wonder of the Water | [216] |
| The Man on the Bench | [219] |
| The Men in the Dark | [224] |
| The Men in the Storm | [230] |
| The Men in the Snow | [233] |
| The Freshness of the Universe | [238] |
| The Cradle of Tears | [241] |
| When the Sails Are Furled | [244] |
| The Sandwich Man | [260] |
| The Love Affairs of Little Italy | [267] |
| Christmas in the Tenements | [275] |
| The Rivers of the Nameless Dead | [284] |