Little Italy waterfront

An early-20th-century immigrant quarter near the docks where tenement flats, market stalls, and subway excavation sat within walking distance of middle-class suburbs.

Illustrative photograph of a subway/tunnel interior (Pexels). Editorial place card for a New England waterfront tenement quarter — not the Carleton narrator.

Illustrative — subway/tunnel interior (Pexels). Used to identify the urban dig/tenement place, not a documented 1911 worksite. · Credit: Pexels · Source: Pexels

Stories

The Emigration That Was Only Ten Miles

After twenty years as a woolen-company clerk, a New Englander who called himself Carleton lost his desk to a younger man — then sold the parlor set and took a subway shovel for a dollar and a half a day.