Five Points, Manhattan - Wikipedia
WEBFive Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Five Points District, New York City, New York (1830s-1860s)
WEBDec 2, 2007 · Five Points District, New York City, New York (1830s-1860s) Originally the site of New York City’s first free black settlement, by 1850 the Five Points district in lower Manhattan had instead become infamous for its dance halls, bars, gambling houses, prostitution, and for its mixed-race clientele.
The Five Points: New York's Most Notorious Neighborhood
WEBMar 7, 2021 · The Five Points took its name because it marked the intersection of four streets which came together to form an irregular intersection with five corners. In the past century, the Five Points has essentially disappeared, as …
Map of the Five Points Neighborhood, 1855-67 · SHEC: Resources …
WEB4 days ago · The map also shows the locations of several key landmarks of the mid-nineteenth century Five Points, including the city's first tenement building at 65 Mott Street, the Bowery Theater on Bowery between Canal and Bayard, and the Five Points House of Industry, previously the Old Brewery slum building, on Worth Street.
Five Points NYC 1800s: A Tale of Urban Transformation - History …
WEBInitially home to NYC’s first free black settlement, by 1850, Five Points had developed a reputation for its vibrant, diverse culture, marked by dance halls and mixed-race clientele. However, it became infamous for overcrowding, poverty, and crime by the mid-19th century.
MAAP | Place Detail: Five Points - Columbia University
WEBIn the 1830s, free blacks and Irish and German immigrants lived crowded together in Five Points. “The most dangerous place in the city” was also a safe haven for those escaping slavery.
urbanography - Where "The Gangs" Lived--New York's Five Points …
WEBBy 1860 Five Points was a little less violent, but still a slum. Abraham Lincoln visited the area in 1860 and reluctantly gave a speech to some school children. He as well as Charles Dickens, who visited the area in 1842, were appalled at …
Background Essay on Life in Mid-19th Century Five Points
WEB5 days ago · The new immigrants--rural, Catholic, and starving--settled in the poorest districts of large cities in the East, including in New York's Five Points neighborhood in downtown Manhattan. The story of Five Points sheds light on a number of important themes in nineteenth-century U.S. history.
The Five Points Gangs That Ruled 19th Century New York - All …
WEBNov 30, 2017 · Five Points was a place where life was short and violent, where race riots would regularly break out, and where diseases spread like wildfire. It was a place of thieves, brothels, and intense poverty – and the place where the original gangs of …
The History Of NYC's Infamous Five Points Explained - Grunge
WEBFeb 2, 2023 · The 19th-century Lower Manhattan neighborhood known as Five Points was notorious. With the rise of cheap tabloid newspapers, stories describing the area's alleged vice, perversion, and violence sold well and spread around the world. The stories didn't come from nowhere.