As eighty-one-year old Mr. Paul reflects back on the seventy-four years he lived in Bronx, New York, he paints an image of the city he remembers as far different from the one in which he now lives after the surge of industrialism. An avid gardener, Mr. Paul describes the old Bronx in terms of rose gardens, flowers, and cherry trees in stark contrast to the “bleak and stony” “shadows” that...
A mother anxiously calls out her children's names in the street. Her neighbors frantically stand at her side, their eyes darting back and forth across the busy streets looking for the lost little ones. Finally, what seems like hours later, there is a banging at the tenement door. It is a New York City policeman, toting the lost children by the hands. Historical photographer Lewis Wickes Hine...
Boys do not like sitting around and talking. They would much rather be running, jumping, throwing, and screaming.
So it comes as a complete surprise to see that on February 9, 1883, a group of adolescent boys, aged anywhere from ten to sixteen, gathered together as delegates of eleven of New York's grammar schools to form a baseball club. The boys came from the city's schools, known by numbers and...