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Bookmark or Share- 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 ...
- Five Points, Manhattan - WikipediaFive Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
- 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.
- 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 Gangs That Ruled 19th Century New York - All That's ...Five Points was a place where life was short and violent, where race riots would regularly break out, and where diseases spread like wildfire. It was a place of thieves, brothels, and intense poverty – and the place where the original gangs of New York were formed.
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