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Excerpt from The Price of Blood: An Extravaganza of New York Life in 1807, Written in Five Chapters and Illustrated
Of great conveniency to foreign im migration, it had even before this become a favorite haven for itinerant visitors from European countries, who for reasons best known to themselves did not find it to fit their inclinations to remain at home. These people, being received into the society of the most exclusive and particular fashion of the town, soon lent to the community a tone characteristic of the manners and customs of European centres of civilization.
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