Entry from
December 10, 2015
Cat Alley (Cannon Street)
Entry in progress—B.P.
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Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens Association of Nrw York Upon the Sanitary Condition of the City
New York, NY: D, Appleton and Company
1865
Pg. 179:
FOURTEENTH STREET—Stanton to Houston Streets. — ‘Cat Alley’ is the local designation of a group of dilapidated tenant-houses in an alley on Cannon Street. The alley is unpaved, and is excessively filthy. THis privy is a small and broken-down structure, covering only part of the vault, which is now full to almost overflowing. The inhabitants are degraded, both physically and socially.