Coverage of the anti-abolition riot from the New York Transcript, July 14, 1834. Collection of the New-York Historical Society. This is a primary source, it was written by some one who was actually there. The Five Points was extremely overpopulated and had bad living conditions and there was still anti-abortion riots throughout the streets. This source is quite trustworthy because it is in the newspaper for all to read.
Gilje’s The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City- This is a secondary source, because Gilje does not actually live in the time period as to which he refers to in his writing.
Another primary source is the O’sullivan diary. This is a primary source but it may not be so trustworthy because it is his own pinion on the matter.