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Luc Sante's Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York documents the world of lower Manhattan from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. This non-fiction tome paints a seedy landscape of Tammany Hall politics, con men, gamblers, alcoholics, thugs, hookers, ragpickers and ratfighters. [1]