Lights and Shadows of New York Life; or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City. A Work Descriptive of the City of New York in All Its Various Phases; with Full and Graphic Accounts of Its Splendors and Wretchedness; Its High and Low Life; Its Marbl…

850 pp. Engravings throughout, including panoramic view of the city and Brooklyn Bridge (built just three years before this work was published). CONTENTS: The City of New York: Historical; Descriptive and Statistical. The Harbor of New York; The City Government; The Ring: The History of the Ring; Personnel of the Ring. Broadway: Historical; Descriptive. Society: Analytical; Fashionable Extravagance; Fashionable Follies; Fashionable Children; A Fashionable Belle; Fashionable Entertainments; Marriage and Death. The Municipal Police; The Bowery; Public Squares: The Battery; The Bowling Green; The Park; Other Parks. The Fifth Avenue; Street Travel: The Street Cars; The Stages; Steam Railways. Horace Greenley; The Tombs; The Press: The Daily Journals; The Weekly Press. Wall Street: The Street; The Stock Exchange; The Government Board; The Gold Exchange; Curbstone Brokers; The Business of the Street; Stock Gambling; The Ways of the Street; Black Friday. The Ferries; The Hotels; Impostors; Street Musicians; The Central Park; The Detectives: The Regular Force; Private Detectives. William B. Astor; Fashionable Shopping; Bleecker Street; Cemeteries: Greenwood; Cyprus Hills; Woodlawn; Calvary, and the Evergreens. The Clubs; The Five Points: Life in the Shadow; The Cellars; The Missions. The Military; Nassau Street; The Metropolitan Fire Department; The Business of New York; The Sabbath in New York; The Post Office: Internal Arrangements; The New Post Office; The Letter Carriers. A. T. Stewart; Places of Amusement: The Theatres; Minor Amusements. The Markets; The Churches: The Sacred Edifices; The Clergy. Boarding-House Life; The Restaurants; The Cheap Lodging Houses; The Libraries; Professional Men; Professional Criminals: The Thieves; The Pickpockets; The Female Thieves; The River Thieves; The Fences; The Roughs. The Pawnbrokers; The Beer Gardens; James Fisk, Jr.; Trinity Church; The Holidays: New Year's Day; Christmas. The Social Evil: The Lost Sisterhood; Houses of Assignation; The Street Walkers; The Concert Saloons; The Dance Houses; Harry Hill's; Masked Balls; Personals; The Midnight Mission. Child Murder; The East River Islands and Their Institutions: Blackwell's Island; Ward's Island; Randall's Island. Benevolent and Charitable Institutions; Henry Ward Beecher; Black-Mailing; Female Sharpers: Fortune Tellers and Clairvoyants; Matrimonial Brokers. Educational Establishments: The Free Schools; The Colleges. Jerome Park; Commodore Vanderbilt; The Bummers; Tenement House Life; Chatham Street; James Gordon Bennett; Drunkenness; What It Costs to Live in New York; Gambling: Faro Banks; Lotteries; Policy Dealing. Peter Cooper; The "Heathen Chinee"; Street Children; Swindlers; Robert Bonner; Public Buildings; Patent Divorces; Croton Water Works; Excursions; Sailors in New York; The Ballet; The Poor of New York: The Deserving Poor; The Beggars. Quack Doctors; Young Men's Christian Association; Castle Garden; Working Women; Street Venders; The Wharves; The Morgue; The Custom House; Missing.