Five Points, Manhattan - Wikipedia
WEBFive Points was a densely populated, disease-ridden, crime-infested neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, from the 1820s to the 1890s. It was known for its poverty, immigration, and social problems, and was the setting of the novel and film The Gangs of New York.
The Five Points | American - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBThe Five Points. Unknown Artist. ca. 1827? On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 758. Five Points was a slum on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The Five Points (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Wikipedia
WEBThe Five Points is an early 19th century oil painting by an unknown artist, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is a reproduction of an oil painting by George Catlin depicting the chaotic lifestyle of New York's Five Points district, a notorious slum on the Lower East Side.
Five Points District, New York City, New York (1830s-1860s)
WEBDec 2, 2007 · Learn about the Five Points district in lower Manhattan, a former black settlement that became infamous for crime and vice in the 1800s. Find out how journalists, reformers, and abolitionists shaped its image and legacy.
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4. Five Points, 1827
WEBBy 1827 when George Catlin painted the original of this image, Five Points was already the nation's first great slum, a magnet for impoverished immigrants and associated trades and tradesmen and women. People like 1842 tourist Charles Dickens were horrified: "Poverty, wretch edness, and vice ... all that is loathsome ...
Unplanned City: Five Points, 1827 - thegreatestgrid.mcny.org
WEBFive Points is the picture of what the grid commissioners were trying to avoid. Had the grid not happened, intersections like Five Points might have sprouted all over the island. Five Points was the five-way junction of Orange (now …
Five Points – The People's LES
WEBMar 9, 2022 · Five Points was the site of the first Free Black Settlement, eventually evolving into a neighborhood with the highest concentration of Black New Yorkers by the 1830s. It is notorious for stories of early gang life in New York City and often recognized as one of the city’s first “slums.”
Five Points 1827, Intersection of Cross, Anthony and Orange …
WEBBy 1810, the intersection of five streets—Mulberry, Anthony (now Worth), Cross (now Park), Orange (now Baxter), and Little Water (no longer in existence)—was the center of a neighborhood referred to as the Five Points.
Nativists and Immigrants | Museum of the City of New York
WEBFive Points, 1827. Nativists pointed to the crowded Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan as a vivid example of everything they feared immigration would bring to New York: poverty, violence, intemperance, crime, sexual vice, and racial mixing.
Background Essay on Life in Mid-19th Century Five Points
WEB5 days ago · Background Essay on Life in Mid-19th Century Five Points. This essay introduces Manhattan's Five Points neighborhood and the people who lived there. The potato famine of the 1840s and 1850s spurred the migration of thousands of impoverished Irish to the United States.