Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

Rating

7.0

The Pequod Review:

Low Life is an entertaining but frequently apocryphal “hidden history” of New York City from approximately 1840 through the 1920s. Luc Sante focuses not just on the broader politics of the city, but on the street-level cultural and social history of the poorest sections of Manhattan.