The image below is a picture taken from Tyler Anbinder’s Five Points. This is a primary source being that this was taken by someone at that moment witnessing whatever was occurring. This clearly is a reliable source because someone was there to witness the actions of that precise moment in time.
This is an image from Tyler Anbinder’s Five Points portraying how New York at one point in the 1800s was a nice, civil place during the day and at night a slum of ridiculous proportions. This image is a secondary source and i believe that it is reliable because of all the corruption that went on in law enforcement at the time.
Below is a depiction of Five Points New York. This is a secondary source being that it is being portrayed after a scenario based on the illustrators memory. However i do believe that it is and accurate depiction and that it is valid in that during the 1800s Five Points, New York was a slum and there were people like that living on the streets.
