Tag Archives: Five Points
Gangs Of New York
I guess the movie is pretty accurate historically speaking, due to the fact that all these gangs did exist and they actually fought. I don’t know if this is really what happened in the five points but in Tyler Abinder’s … Continue reading
Five Points: The “Point” of No Return
Five Points was where it went down – the rebelling, the yelling, the fighting, the frighting… It was the “point” where the Gangs of New York could be found. Known to have the highest murder rate of any slum in … Continue reading
Politics = Violence
Gangs of New York, by Martin Scorsese is a movie that represents life during the mid 19th century in the infamous area known as the Five Points. There were lots of groups that formed with the intent to eliminate the … Continue reading
N.O.T.O.R.I.O.U.S.
How can you described one of the most dangerous, crime struck, poverty stricken environments, or the birth place a heathenism according to many Religious leaders. This was the town of Five Points, New York City or known today as Chinatown. … Continue reading
Sounds nice but was you actually there?
The New York transcript gave a coverage of the “anti-aborlition riot on July 14,1834″(pg10). I sight this as a secondary source becasue even through it was written about an event that took place I am not to sure if the writer … Continue reading
Opinioned sources on Five Points- Lack of “Penance” or “Patronage”?
Church Monthly, March 1858, (as quoted in Monthly Record of the Five Points House of Industry 2, June 1858, pgs 34-35. “The most notorious precinct of moral leprosy in the city, … a perfect hot-bed of physical and moral pestilence, … Continue reading
Source it Out!
Typically portrayed in a negative light by many historians of its time, Five Points, modern day New York City’s Chinatown, is shown in its true essence in Tyler Anbinder’s detailed account of the infamous 19th Century neighborhood describing the many … Continue reading
O RLY? Where did you get that from?!
Tyler Anbinder’s “Five Points” describes the notorious 19th century slum city, of where we live today. The book gives you a understatement perspective of life in the “Five Points.” It illustrates the impact of immigrants in the neighborhood, and how … Continue reading
Five Points
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 … Continue reading
Points from Five Points
One source used in Andbinder’s Five Points is: Trench, Realties of Irish Life, 122-124; it is a set of memoirs written by William Steuart Trench, depicting the sufferings of the Lansdowne’s tenants starting from the start of the famine. He … Continue reading