Excerpt from New York in the Elegant Eighties Nothing like the charm and fascination of New York in those days, exists at present. It seems like a different world. The present New Yorker knows nothing about the saner, the quieter and more dignified city of forty years ago. What happened to Rip Van Winkle upon his return to the village of Falling Waters after his sleep of twenty years would be tame in comparison with what a New Yorker of the Eighties would experience suddenly returning to the New York of Today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.