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  2. Five Points, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 5 Pointz - Wikipedia

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    5 Pointz consisted of twelve factory buildings that were one, three, or five stories high. Eight of these structures were interconnected. The structures had a combined 250,000 to 300,000 square feet (23,000 to 28,000 m 2) of floor space. [2]: G2 The lot on which 5 Pointz was situated is 2.9 acres (1.2 ha). [2]:

  4. 262 Fifth Avenue - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Kuzinez also purchased air rights for $5.8 million. [2] In September 2016, SLCE Architects applied to build a 54-story, 928-foot (283 m) structure on the site at 262 Fifth Avenue designed by Russian firm Meganom. [1] Before receiving the commission to design 262 Fifth Avenue, Meganom had not designed a building in the United States. [3]

  5. Category:Five Points, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Chatham Square - Wikipedia

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    Pitt Street in the Lower East Side is also named for him, and Park Row was once Chatham Street. [3] [page needed] Until about 1820, the square was an open air market for goods and livestock, mainly horses. By the mid-19th century, it became a center for tattoo parlors, flophouses and saloons, as a seedy section of the old Five Points neighborhood.

  7. Columbus Park (Manhattan) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Mulberry Bend - Wikipedia

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    Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street, 1888 photograph by Jacob Riis. 21 Baxter Street: The Baxter Street Dudes were a New York teenage street gang, mostly of former newsboys and bootblacks, who ran a makeshift theater with stolen and salvaged equipment, props and costumes in the basement of a dive bar at 21 Baxter Street during the 1870s.

  9. Collect Pond - Wikipedia

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    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.