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Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.
The pond occupied approximately 48 acres (190,000 m 2) and was as deep as 60 feet (18 m). [1] Fed by an underground spring, it was located in a valley, with Bayard Mount (at 110 feet or 34 metres the tallest hill in lower Manhattan) to the northeast and Kalck Hoek (Dutch for Chalk Point, named for the numerous oyster shell middens left by the indigenous Native American inhabitants) to the west.
Five Points JV, L.P. acted as the representative of the site's owner. [1] Demolition of the structure at 262 Fifth Avenue was completed by September 2017. [ 4 ] Nikolai Fedak, writing for New York YIMBY , compared plans to incorporate 260 Fifth Avenue into the new building's base to plans for 111 West 57th Street .
Mulberry Street is a principal thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. It is historically associated with Italian-American culture and history, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the heart of Manhattan's Little Italy. The street was listed on maps of the area since at least 1755.
Five Points was the name of a neighborhood in New York City's old Sixth Ward in Lower Manhattan, and was a notorious slum. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The southern end of Baxter Street, at Worth Street, in the former Five Points (2014). Prior to the middle of the eighteenth century, the area was still undeveloped. Orange Street is first shown in a 1754 map as a two-block street running from the "High Road To Boston" (which later became Chatham St. and finally, Park Row), and ended at a small clearing where the later "bend" in the street ...
Mulberry Street looking north to Bayard Street with Mulberry Bend on left, c. 1890. Mulberry Bend was an area surrounding a curve on Mulberry Street, in the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is located in what is now Chinatown in Manhattan.
Columbus Park formerly known as Mulberry Bend Park, Five Points Park and Paradise Park, is a public park in Chinatown, Manhattan, in New York City that was built in 1897. American photojournalist Jacob Riis (best known for How The Other Half Lives ) is generally credited with "transforming Mulberry Bend from a 'notorious slum' to a park" in ...