Product Description: To combat behavior they viewed as sexually promiscuous, politically undesirable, or downright criminal, social activists in Progressive-era New York employed private investigators to uncover the roots of society’s problems. New York Undercover follows these investigators—often journalists or social workers with no training in surveillance—on their information-gathering visits to gambling parlors, brothels, and meetings of criminal gangs and radical political organizations...read more

The history and development of the Bronx, beginning with its start as a series of commuter villages to its current status as a home for New York's heterogeneous Hispanic and African American population, is traced in a fascinating study of a vibrant American community.