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Five Points
The most infamous slum in New York City history was Five Points. In recent
years, the area was the subject of books, a location for a gang movie and
was even mentioned in passing in the movie, The Sting . If a person was
said to have come from Five Points, he or she was not someone to be trifled
with. What was this notorious area really like? Was it as bad as we think
it was? Actually, it was worse.
The neighborhood known as Five Points in the 1800s was in the Sixth Ward -
also known as the Bloody Sixth . The name derives from the five pointed
star once formed by the intersections of Anthony, Little Water, Orange and
Mulberry Streets. At this juncture, there was a small iron-fenced park known
as Paradise Square. This formed the center of the Five Points neighborhood.
Located near Mulberry Street, was Bunker Hill. This was once the site of
an old Revolutionary War fort.
Five Points was a predominently Irish neighborhood, though other ethnic and
racial groups could easily be found there. Germans, African-Americans and
English also called this area home. Five Points was not just a poor area, it
was deeply impoverished.
The location was originally the home of a swampish lake called the Collect.
Slaughterhouses lined the pond. The area that would soon be known as Five Points
was an ethnically diverse area in the 1700s. Families of the working and middle
classes called the area home. Due to the conditions, malaria was not uncommon.
The families who li"
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