---
title: 'Life in New York'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Samuel Irenaeus Prime'
date: 1857-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Social Issues'
- 'Fiction'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 8'
- 'Leviticus 19'
- 'Matthew 22'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/prime-1857-life-in-new-york
---

# Life in New York

Mid-19th-century sketches of life in New York exposing urban vice, poverty, and moral danger. Urges charity, individual responsibility, and warns country youth of city temptations.

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