Main entry:

Anbinder, Tyler, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York : Free Press, [2001]
©2001

Description:

viii, 532 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-515) and index.
Prologue: The Five Points race riot of 1834 -- The making of Five Points -- Prologue: Nelly Holland comes to Five Points -- Why they came -- Prologue: "The wickedest house on the wickedest street that ever existed" -- How they lived -- Prologue: The saga of Johnny Morrow, the street peddler -- How they worked -- Prologue: "We will dirk every mother's son of you!" -- Politics -- Prologue: "This phenomenon, 'Juba' " -- Play -- Prologue: The bare-knuckle prizefight between Yankee Sullivan and Tom Hyer -- Vice and crime -- Prologue: "I shall never forget this as long as I live": Abraham Lincoln visits Five Points -- Religion and reform -- Prologue: "He never knew when he was beaten" -- Riot -- Prologue: "The boy who commands that pretty lot recruited them for the Seceshes" -- The Civil War and the end of an era -- Prologue: "So it was settled that I should go to America" -- The remaking of a slum -- Prologue: "These 'slaves of the harp' " -- Italians -- Prologue: "The Chinese Devil Man" -- Chinatown -- The end of Five Points.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0684859955
9780684859958

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.
Quartiers ethniques New York (État) New York Histoire 19e siècle.
Vie urbaine New York (État) New York Histoire 19e siècle.
City and town life
Ethnic neighborhoods
Slums
Social conditions
Nachbarschaft
Stadtviertel
Dagelijks leven.
Stadtteil.
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.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York Five Points
New York, NY

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227448
Call No.: F128.68.F56 A53 2001
Status: Available