The Secrets of The Great City; A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City.

New York is a great secret, not only to those who have never seen it, but to the majority of its own citizens. Discussion of the city government, metropolitan police, the press, business, fashionable shopping, Sunday, restaurants, Central Park, schools, the harbor, etc. But of more interest is "The Tombs," street musicians, boarding houses, the poor, beggars, emigrants, the social evil, assignation houses, street walkers, dance houses, blackmailing, thieves, pickpockets, drunkenness, gambling, sailor's boarding houses, cemeteries, baby farming, fortune tellers, quack doctors, matrimonial advertisements, abattoirs, the morgue, divorce lawyers, pawnbrokers, lotteries, situation agencies, swindlers, missing people. Probably of great use to someone writing an historical novel set in 19th century New York. Where else would you learn about "the dens of midnight," "sewing machine swindles," or "female medical establishments" in the "Great City?"