Bad Saloons were everywhere in 1800s New York (legal and illegal). Frequented more often than any church, coffee-house or reading room, the dram-shop took a terrible toll on the lives of New York's poor. You will discover that cheap grog was sold to anyone with a few cents to buy a drink, and the owners of evil (often un-licenced) back street dives didn't much care for the law prohibiting the sale of alcohol to children either. Find out how, according to Jacob Riis in the late 1800s, police indifference at best, and political corruption at worst, kept New York flowing with rum.

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