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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 ...
Five Points. Paul Kelly, founder of the Five Points Gang. A slum tour through the Five Points in an 1885 sketch. The area of Manhattan where four streets – Anthony (now Worth), Cross (now Mosco), Orange (now Baxter), and Little Water (now nonexistent) – converged was known as the "Five Points". [ 2] Mulberry, notorious for slum tenements ...
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 ...
Mulberry Bend. Coordinates: 40°42′54.30″N 73°59′58.78″W. 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 .
Chatham Square is a major intersection in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City. The square lies at the confluence of eight streets: the Bowery, Doyers Street, East Broadway, St. James Place, Mott Street, Oliver Street, Worth Street and Park Row. The small park in the center of the square is known as Kimlau Square[ 1] and Lin Ze Xu Square.
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 ...
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.
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 ...