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Bookmark or Share- Five Points District, New York City, New York (1830s-1860s) - BlackpastOriginally the site of New York City’s first free black settlement, by 1850 the Five Points district in lower Manhattan had instead become infamous for its dance halls, bars, gambling houses, prostitution, and for its mixed-race clientele.
- Map of the Five Points Neighborhood, 1855-67 · SHEC: Resources for TeachersSnapshots of Five Points, 1827-1867. Primary resources, classroom activities, graphic organizers and lesson plans produced by the American Social History Project designed for use in K-12 classrooms.
- The History Of NYC's Infamous Five Points Explained - GrungeSome of America's most famous gangsters, like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, came through Five Points. According to Pace University, it is believed that at one time, Five Points had the highest murder rate in the world.
- The Five Points: New York's Most Notorious Neighborhood - ThoughtCoIt is impossible to overstate how notorious the lower Manhattan neighborhood called the Five Points was throughout the 1800s. It was said to be the roost of gang members and criminals of all types, and was widely known, and feared, as the home turf of flamboyant gangs of Irish immigrants.
- Looking Back at the Historic Five Points NeighborhoodAfter a few decades, the Five Points neighborhood functionally ceased to exist and was subsumed by the rapidly-growing Chinatown —while Chinese immigration to America was curbed by the deeply discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, other Chinese immigrants fleeing anti-Asian violence in the western United States relocated to New York in ...
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