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Five Points : the 19th-century New York City neighborhood that invented tap dance, stole elections, and became the world's most notorious slum

Anbinder, Tyler

Overview

Five Points (an intersection in lower Manhattan formed when Anthony Street was extended to meet Orange and Cross-today's Baxter and North Streets), was the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America. Visitors from Charles Dickens to Abraham Lincoln flocked to Five Points to witness the filthy streets, bordellos, gambling dens, and tenements that housed the lowest of the low. A close look at Five Points reveals a hidden world. As one of the most ethnically varied areas in the nation's most diverse city, The Five Points story is a classic American example of immigrant energy and ambition. From \"Bowery Boy\" culture to the invention of tap dance, to the most famous prize-fight of the century, to the timeless photographs of Jacob Riis, Five Points illuminates the colorful history of a fascinating community.

• Publisher: Free Press
• Subject: Slums New York (State) New York History 19th century. / Ethnic neighborhoods New York (State) New York History 19th century. / City and town life New York (State) New York History 19th century. / Five Points (New York, N.Y.) History. / Five Points (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions. / New York (N.Y.) History. / New York (N.Y.) Social conditions.
• ISBN: 9781439141557, 143914155X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F128.68.F56 A53 2010	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE