James Dabney McCabe > Quotes

“The number of buildings in the city is from 60,000 to 70,000.  In 1860, out of 161,000 families only 15,000 occupied entire houses.  Nine thousand one hundred and twenty dwellings contained two families each, and 6100 contained three families each.  After these come the tenement houses.  At present, the number of houses occupied by more than one family is even larger.”
― James Dabney McCabe, Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City