Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum

Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum


Used – This study of one of New York City’s lost neighborhoods, the notorious Five Points section, recalls its history in the 1800s as a seedy slum, where newly arrived immigrants started at the bottom and where crime, prostitution, violence, alcoholism, and corruption ran rampant. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

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