Five Points

George Catlin, 1827, Paradise Square
Wikipedia - "Five Points (or The Five Points) was a neighborhood in central lower Manhattan in New York City. The neighborhood was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street in the west, The Bowery in the east, Canal Street in the north and Park Row in the south. ... Five Points gained international notoriety as a disease-ridden crime-infested slum that existed for well over 70 years."
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THE FIVE POINTS By Gregory Christiano
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