Last Wednesday, the City Room at the Times blogged about a fragile artifact from the archives of the New York Historical Society: an 1870 guidebook that served as a Zagat of sorts for the city's brothel industry. The Times was able to scan its pages to provide an interactive experience that allows you to take a fascinating tour of of nineteenth-century Manhattan. In what neighborhoods could you find the most houses of prostitution? What street was considered the most iniquitous? What were panel thieves? How did the writer/publisher use his introduction to protect himself?
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