I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Scary NYC neighborhood, 1888 Cory Doctorow,...



Scary NYC neighborhood, 1888
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Here’s a photo from Jacob Riis’s 1890 clas­sic “How the Other Half Lives,” “an early publication… doc­u­ment­ing squalid liv­ing con­di­tions in New York City slums in the 1880s.” It shows “Ban­dit’s Roost, at 59½ Mul­ber­ry Street (Mul­ber­ry…



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