Five Points Paperback - 2002
by Tyler Anbinder
All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. It housed America's most impoverished immigrants-the Irish, Jews, Germans, Italians, and African-Americans. Located in today's Chinatown and Little Italy, Five Points played host to more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But it was also crammed full of cheap theaters, dance halls, prizefighting venues, and political arenas that would one day dominate the national scene. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points horrified and enthralled everyone who saw it.
Drawing from letters, diaries, newspapers, bank records, police reports, and archeological digs, award-winning historian Tyler Anbinder has written the first history of this remarkable neighborhood. Beginning with the Irish potato famine influx in 1840 and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early 20th century, the story of Five Points serves as a microcosm of the American immigrant experience.
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FIVE POINTS was the most notorious neighborhood in nineteenth-century America.
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- Title Five Points
- Author Tyler Anbinder
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 544
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York
- Date 2002
- ISBN 9780452283619 / 0452283612
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.1 x 1.14 in (22.81 x 15.49 x 2.90 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.) - History, New York (N.Y.) - Social conditions
- Dewey Decimal Code 974.7
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