5 Points New York

5 Points New York. The History Of NYC's Infamous Five Points Explained The Five Points was a name given to a neighborhood that existed in Lower Manhattan, New York in the 19th century In 2019, however, a New York City historian named Lloyd Trufelman set out to change that.

The Five Points Gangs That Ruled 19th Century New York
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They were also responsible for some of the city's most notorious riots. Outsiders found Five Points threatening and fodder for lurid prose.

The Five Points Gangs That Ruled 19th Century New York

For untold years, one of the only testaments to the existence of the Five Points neighborhood was a single holdover tenement building at 65 Mott Street (which is believed to be the first building in New York specifically constructed as tenement housing) Learn more about the history of Five Points in New York's Mythic Slum booklet [PDF - 6 MB] Named for the points created by the intersection of Park, Worth, and Baxter streets, the neighborhood was known as a center of vice and debauchery throughout the nineteenth century

The Five Points Gangs That Ruled 19th Century New York. Five Points in 1827 as depicted in Valentine's Manual, 1855 The Old Brewery, from The Old Brewery and the New Mission House at the Five Points, by Ladies of the Mission Named for the points created by the intersection of Park, Worth. The Five Points was an NYC neighborhood famed for its violence and debauchery

Stand Up Guy "Gangs of New York" and Ghosts of the Five Points. It had gained notoriety over its existence for crime and urban squalor To the larger white community, the Five Points was both a warning about the dangers of racial mixing, and a threat to New York's racial and social order.