Once upon a time in Mulberry Street … New York recalls romance of its past

There can be no more iconic photograph of Manhattan at its teeming, turn of the 20th century peak than the image of Mulberry Street taken by the famed documentarian Jacob Riis in 1900. “They are labourers; toilers in all grades of manual work; they are artisans, they are junkmen, and here, too, dwell the rag pickers,” the New York Times had reported four years earlier, in 1896.