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    Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which...
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    The Five Points Gang was a criminal street gang of primarily Irish-American origins, based in the Five Points of Lower Manhattan, New York City, during...
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  • locations Five Points, Minnesota Five Points, Trenton, New Jersey Five Points, Manhattan, New York North Carolina: Five Points, North Carolina Five Points, Franklin...
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    from the ethnically diverse immigrant neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan. The Five Points Gang included some who later became prominent criminals in their...
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    part of the core of the infamous Five Points; the southwest corner of Mulberry Bend formed part of the Five Points intersection for which the neighborhood...
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    formerly known as Mulberry Bend Park, Five Points Park and Paradise Park, is a public park in Chinatown, Manhattan, in New York City that was built in 1897...
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  • Hell-Cat Maggie (category People from Five Points, Manhattan)
    a well-known personality in Manhattan's Five Points district and a noted fighter, her teeth reportedly filed into points and her fingers adorned with...
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    what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan, it was the main New York City...
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    nickname for three previous city-run jails in the former Five Points neighborhood of lower Manhattan, in an area now known as the Civic Center. The original...
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    Dead Rabbits (category Five Points, Manhattan)
    was the name of an Irish American criminal street gang active in Lower Manhattan in the 1830s to 1850s. The Dead Rabbits were so named after a dead rabbit...
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    Canal Street is a major east–west street of over 1 mile (1.6 km) in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States, running from East Broadway between Essex...
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    The Gangs of New York (category Five Points, Manhattan)
    gambling dens, and winding alleys of the Bowery and the Five Points district of Lower Manhattan, the book evokes the destitution and violence of a turbulent...
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    John van Salee de Grasse (category People from Five Points, Manhattan)
    for a period for Aaron Burr, who gave him two lots in the Five Points area of Lower Manhattan, making him a landowner as a free man of color. With his...
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    Roach Guards (category Five Points, Manhattan)
    Five Points neighborhood of New York City the early 19th century. The gang was originally formed to protect New York liquor merchants in Five Points and...
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  • Gallus Mag (category People from Five Points, Manhattan)
    likely her forename. The Hole in the Wall bar was at 279 Water Street, Manhattan, more recently the site of the historic Bridge Cafe. Herbert Asbury's...
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    York City borough of Manhattan, running through the Civic Center, Chinatown, and Little Italy neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan. It connects Park Row...
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    The Old Brewery (category Five Points, Manhattan)
    part of Lower Manhattan, within what is now New York City. Originally on the city's outskirts, it became the neighborhood of Five Points, becoming a tenement...
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    Lafayette Street is a major north–south street in New York City's Lower Manhattan. It originates at the intersection of Reade Street and Centre Street,...
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    Dead Rabbits riot (category Five Points, Manhattan)
    members of the Dead Rabbits led a coalition of street gangs from the Five Points (with the exception of the Roach Guards with whom they had been fighting)...
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    Mulberry Bend (category Five Points, Manhattan)
    Mulberry Street, in the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is located in what is now Chinatown in Manhattan. It was bounded by...
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    first and oldest gang in the city, the Forty Thieves, to occupy the Five Points area. The Kerryonians were particularly fond of targeting New Yorkers...
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    -74.00583 The Civic Center is an area and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, Manhattan, New York City, that encompasses New York City Hall, One Police Plaza...
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    Gang Winter Hill Gang 10th and Oregon Crew American Mafia The Commission Five Families Bonanno crime family Colombo crime family Gambino crime family Baltimore...
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    Street south of Canal Street was part of the Five Points, a notorious slum neighborhood in lower Manhattan. In 1872, Wo Kee, a Chinese merchant, opened...
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    How the Other Half Lives (category Five Points, Manhattan)
    342, 344 Plunz, p.38 Gandal, p.148 Riis, 2011. Anbinder, Tyler (2001). Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance...
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    Patrick Joseph Hayes (category People from Five Points, Manhattan)
    to the cardinalate in 1924. Patrick Hayes was born in the Five Points section of Manhattan to Daniel Hayes and Mary Gleason. In his own words, Hayes "was...
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    Shirt Tails were a mid-19th-century street gang based in the Five Points slum in Manhattan, New York, United States, who wore their shirts on the outside...
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    Danny Driscoll (category People from Five Points, Manhattan)
    eventually replaced by the Eastman and Five Points Gangs. His arrest for the murder of well-known Five Points debutante Bridget "Beezy" Garrity during...
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    Rosanna Peers (category People from Five Points, Manhattan)
    store would become a popular underworld hangout for criminals in the Five Points district and throughout the city during the next two decades. Peers'...
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    immigrants and Irish Americans who terrorized the Five Points neighborhood of 19th century Manhattan. Another criminal gang named the "Forty Thieves" which...
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