- List of Illustrations*
- Introduction by Alan Trachtenberg
- Note on the Text
- Chronology of Jacob A. Riis’s Life
- How the Other Half Lives
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Genesis of the Tenement
- 2. The Awakening
- 3. The Mixed Crowd
- 4. The Downtown Back Alleys
- 5. The Italian in New York
- 6. The Bend
- 7. A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives
- 8. The Cheap Lodging Houses
- 9. Chinatown
- 10. Jewtown
- 11. The Sweaters of Jewtown
- 12. The Bohemians—Tenement House Cigarmaking
- 13. The Color Line in New York
- 14. The Common Herd
- 15. The Problem of the Children
- 16. Waifs of the City’s Slums
- 17. The Street Arab
- 18. The Reign of Rum
- 19. The Harvest of Tares
- 20. The Working Girls of New York
- 21. Pauperism in the Tenements
- 22. The Wrecks and the Waste
- 23. The Man with the Knife
- 24. What Has Been Done
- 25. How the Case Stands
- Appendix: Statistics Bearing on the Tenement Problem
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- * Illustrations
- Gotham Court
- Hell’s Kitchen and Sebastopol
- Tenement of 1863, for Twelve Families on Each Flat
- Ash Barrel of Old
- Tenement of the Old Style. Birth of the Air-Shaft
- At the Cradle of the Tenement—Doorway of an Old-Fashioned Dwelling on Cherry Hill
- Upstairs in Blindman’s Alley
- An Old Rear-Tenement in Roosevelt Street
- In the Home of an Italian Rag-Picker, Jersey Street
- The Bend
- Bandit’s Roost
- Bottle Alley
- Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement—“Five Cents a Spot”
- An All-Night Two-Cent Restaurant, in “The Bend”
- The Tramp
- Bunks in a Seven-Cent Lodging-House, Pell Street
- In a Chinese Joint
- “The Official Organ of Chinatown”
- A Tramp’s Nest in Ludlow Street
- A Market Scene in the Jewish Quarter
- The Old Clo’e’s Man—in the Jewish Quarters
- “Knee-Pants” at Forty-five Cents a Dozen—A Ludlow Street Sweater’s Shop
- Bohemian Cigarmakers at Work in Their Tenement
- A Black-and-Tan Dive in “Africa”
- The Open Door
- Bird’s-Eye View of an East Side Tenement Block
- The White Badge of Mourning
- In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-eighth Street. An English Coal-Heaver’s Home
- Dispossessed
- The Trench in the Potter’s Field
- Prayer-Time in the Nursery—Five Points House of Industry
- “Didn’t Live Nowhere”
- Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters
- Getting Ready for Supper in the Newsboys’ Lodging House
- A Downtown “Morgue”
- A Growler Gang in Session
- Typical Toughs (from the Rogues’ Gallery)
- Hunting River Thieves
- Sewing and Starving in an Elizabeth Street Attic
- A Flat in the Pauper Barracks, West Thirty-eighth Street, with All Its Furniture
- Coffee at One Cent
- Evolution of the Tenement in Twenty Years
- General Plan of the Riverside Buildings (A. T. White’s) in Brooklyn
- Floor Plan of One Division in the Riverside Buildings, Showing Six “Apartments”
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