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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 ...
The Five Points Gang was a criminal street gang of primarily Irish-American origins, based in the Five Points of Lower Manhattan, New York City, during the late 19th and early 20th century. [ 1 ] Paul Kelly , born Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, was an Italian American who founded the Five Points Gang.
The Dead Rabbits riot was a two-day civil disturbance in New York City evolving from what was originally a small-scale street fight between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide gang war, which occurred July 4–5, 1857. Taking advantage of the disorganized state of the city's police force—brought about by the ...
The Old Brewery within the slums of the Five Points, Manhattan, New York City, in a painting before its demolition, circa 1850. The 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 ...
Paul Kelly (born Francesco Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli; [ 1] December 23, 1876 – April 3, 1936) was an Italian-born American mobster, who founded the Five Points Gang in New York City. He had started some brothels with prize money earned in boxing. Five Points Gang was one of the last dominant street gangs in New York history.
The Eastman Gang was the last of New York's street gangs which dominated the city's underworld during the late 1890s until the early 1910s. Along with the Five Points Gang under Italian-American Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, best known as Paul Kelly, the Eastman gang succeeded the long dominant Whyos as the first non-Irish street gang to gain prominence in the underworld during the 1890s.
The Tombs was the colloquial name for Manhattan Detention Complex[ 1] (formerly the Bernard B. Kerik Complex during 2001–2006 [ 2] ), a former municipal jail at 125 White Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It was also the nickname for three previous city-run jails in the former Five Points neighborhood of lower Manhattan, in an area ...
Category. : Five Points, Manhattan. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Five Points, Manhattan. Five Points was the name of a neighborhood in New York City 's old Sixth Ward in Lower Manhattan, and was a notorious slum.