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From ‘The Dens of Death,’ New York Daily Tribune, June 1850
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“This is the place: these narrow ways diverging to the right and left, and reeking every where with dirt and filth. Such lives as are led here, bear the same fruit here as elsewhere. The coarse and bloated faces at the doors have counterparts at home and all the wide world over. Debauchery has made the very houses prematurely old.”
- Charles Dickens on Five Points, New York City
