The Old Brewery - Wikipedia
WEBThe Old Brewery (also known as Coulthard's Brewery) was built in 1792 in the central part of Lower Manhattan, within what is now New York City. Originally on the city's outskirts, it became the neighborhood of Five Points, becoming a tenement rookery following the economic depression of the Panic of 1837.
Five Points, Manhattan - Wikipedia
WEBAccording to an old New York urban legend, the Old Brewery, formerly Coulthard's Brewery from the 1790s, then an overcrowded tenement on Cross Street housing 1,000 poor, is said to have had a murder a night for 15 years, until its demolition in 1852.
NEW YORK CITY looking back: The Old Brewery - Blogger
WEBThe Old Brewery was the heart of the Five Points and was the most celebrated tenement building in the history of the city. It was called Coulters Brewery when first constructed in 1792 on the banks of the old Collect.
The Old Brewery in the Five Points NYC - AB Museum of Crime 2
WEBSep 28, 2015 · In the darkest section of New York City, The Five Points, loomed a hulking toad of a building that became looked upon as the most evil... most crime ridden place of the first half of the 19th...
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.
The Five Points: New York's Most Notorious Neighborhood
WEBMar 7, 2021 · A large building that had been a brewery in colonial times was a notorious landmark in the Five Points. It was claimed that up to 1,000 poor people lived in the "Old Brewery," and it was said to be a den of unimaginable vice, including gambling and prostitution and illegal saloons.
The Five Points Gangs That Ruled 19th Century New York - All …
WEBNov 30, 2017 · The Five Points gangs made their neighborhood one of the deadliest places on earth. It was said that they had the highest murder rate of any slum in the world. According to the legends, the most dangerous building – a housing tenement called the "Old Brewery" – saw a murder every single night.
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.
"Born in Sin, Nurtured in Crime": The Children of New York City's ...
WEBThe Five Points was a notorious mid-nineteenth century New York City slum. Located just east of the fashionable stores, columned banks, and well-dressed crowds of Broadway, its squalor served to remind New Yorkers of the destitution that so closely underlay the city’s surging wealth.
THE FIVE POINTS - urbanography
WEBThe Five Points was a lurid geographical cancer filled with dilapidated and unlivable tenement houses, gang extortion, corrupt politicians, houses of ill-repute and drunkenness and gambling. This was a place where all manner of crime flourished, the residents terrorized and squalor prevailed.
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