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Fruits and vegetables came from small market  gardens in the city, and manure piled high on streets and docks was gold  to nearby farmers. 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Poor New Yorkers, especially immigrants, resisted many of these changes, which threatened their way of life.  By the time the Civil War erupted, bourgeois reform appeared to be succeeding. City government promised to regulate what seemed most ungovernable about urban habitation: the scourge of epidemics and fires, unending filth, and deepening poverty. 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