Yellow Fever

Manhattan had much smaller geographic footprint at the time that bach is building. And this suggests that as merchants are buying up valuable water front real estate and reaping all these financial benefits of urban development, there are also scores of poor and working class men and women who find themselves increasingly crowded into the nooks and crannies of these newly built spaces. Many of the public health issues that plagued early national cities were often traced to these exact neighborhoods,. especially things like yellow fever.