The Five Points of New York City - Criminal Element.
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FIVE POINTS by Tyler Anbinder. New York City lore is something I know a bit of but couldn’t care much about otherwise — this is because I’m a horrible person, of course — but more to the point it’s generally alien to my experience. I have my exceptions, though, and sometimes a good book comes along to illustrate some instances.
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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 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 Five Points gained international notoriety.
Tyler Anbinder, Five Points (New York, The Free Press, 2001) Five Points also touted a less flattering nickname, Bloody Ould’ Sixth, thanks to its location in the Sixth Ward and the area’s alleged murder a night. A reporter for the New York Evening Post wrote of Bloody Ould’ Sixth: “They had a dreadful fight upon last Saturday night.
Just as pictured in Scorsese’s film, as well as Tyler Anbinder’s infamous work, Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Sole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum, “Boss” Tweed flexed his political muscle mainly through the implementation of gang violence as his own personal police force which in turn granted him votes.
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