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The Five Points is an early 19th century oil painting by an unknown artist, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. [1] It is a reproduction of an oil painting by George Catlin depicting the chaotic lifestyle of New York's Five Points district, a notorious slum on the Lower East Side.
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.
Front and side of 5 Pointz Rear of 5 Pointz. 5 Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burnin' [1] or 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc., mainly referred to as simply 5 Pointz or 5Pointz, was an American mural space at 45-46 Davis Street in Long Island City, Queens, New York City.
The Chichesters also known as the Chichester Gang, along with the Forty Thieves, Shirt Tails, and Kerryonians, were one of the oldest early 19th century Irish Five Points street gangs during the mid 19th century in New York City. The Chichester Gang was organized by its founder John Chichester. The gang got their start by stealing from stores ...
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.
Beginning in the 1820s, the Kerryonians were part of the first wave of the early New York gangs, following behind the first and oldest gang in the city, the Forty Thieves, to occupy the Five Points area. The Kerryonians were particularly fond of targeting New Yorkers who were of British descent.
The truce lasted only an hour or two as fighting resumed near The Tombs, [2] supposedly brought about by a group of women from the Five Points who had provoked the Dead Rabbits into attacking the Bowery gangs. Bringing reinforcements, the participants were estimated at between 800 and 1000, armed with bludgeons, paving stones, brickbats, axes ...
The internal feud was especially violent as they fought over the Five Points area. Despite constant fighting, they managed to hold their own in the "slugger battles" against the more organized and disciplined "Bowery Boys". The Roach Guards, however, began to decline during the 1850s, disappearing entirely by the end of the American Civil War ...