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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

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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

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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, City and town life, Ethnic neighborhoods, Slums, Social conditions, 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 (State) -- New York, New York (State) -- New York -- Five Points
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New York : Plume
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Internet Archive
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English
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viii, 532 pages : 23 cm

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.--From publisher description

Reprint of hardcover edition published by The Free Press, 2001

Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-515) and index
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Arcadia #4281
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2089
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0452283612
9780452283619
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