Thought you city folks might be interested in this that came in from
another list.  I found it interesting and I don't even know where these
streets are or even if they still are.  Ruth




>
>>From the "New York Times" (New York, N.Y.), 28 April 1872, page 1:
>
>BROOKLYN BOARDING
>
>Some Interesting Facts About the Business as it Exists
>
>Four Hundred Thousand People Boarding--Where the Houses are Located--
>Struggle of Property-Owners to Avoid Them--A Great Social Problem
>
>. . . . It has been remarked that two-fifths of the City of Churches
>board. That is certainly the truth. Of the forty-eight thousand odd
>houses in Brooklyn fully one quarter are boarding places of more or
>less pretension. Within those houses, all told, live a population
>estimated at over four hundred thousand. . . .
>
>In Brooklyn they have a monopoly of certain portions of every general
>division of the city. In "South Brooklyn," with Henry-street as a
>back-bone, they shoot out vertebrae all along Hicks, Congress, Amity,
>Baltic, Harrison, Warren, Joralemon, Degraw and other cross streets.
>On "the Hill," a space bounded by De Kalb, Classon, Hudson and
>Atlantic avenues, the speckle Portland and Elliott places, Carlton-
>avenue, Hamilton-street, De Kalb-avenue, Bedford-place, Downing-
>street, Cambridge-place, Fort Greene-place, Raymond, Navy, St. Felix,
>and portions of Oxford and other streets. In "Central Brooklyn,"
>Lawrence, Gold, Adams, Bridge, Tillary, Smith, Hoyt, Jay, Johnson and
>other parallel thoroughfares are surrendered to them. There are also
>"isolated" establishments, the pleasure of occupants and the terror
>of neighboring private residents who know that when landladies come
>into a new locality as single spies, they will, ere long, come as
>battalions. In fact, when a thoroughfare begins to be dotted with
>these, pater familias sells out and moves up on the avenues, so as to
>"get the better air which prevails." . . . .
>
>The internal economy of boarding-houses furnishes many studies for
>the curious, the speculative, the philosophical and the statistical.
>Of course, all the arrangements, comforts, discomforts, general facts
>and peculiarities directly affect two parties--the landlady and her
>boarders. The term landlady, so often used in this article, is
>rendered necessary by the fact that the business of private boarding
>is about exclusively in the hands of the gentler sex. The men of the
>family, be they husbands or grown up sons, are fifth wheels of
>coaches round such establishments. All the bargains, bills, and
>complaints are settled by the landlady. This is not done merely for
>sympathetic effect. It arises from the fact that the men are either
>in more rugged business on their own account, or, if not, because
>they are shiftless, indolent, dissipated, or trifling. Women so
>entirely monopolize the business that men are of no account in
>considering it. . . .
>
>Shirley Rosecrans
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