Gangs of New York and the Bloody Five Points

‘A human dump of Mythic Proportion’

Just east of today’s City Hall and Municipal Building, this was once was a foul-smelling, disease-ridden district. Brought to life in the movie Gangs of New York, it was a place of violence, gang wars, poverty, and corruption. The district evokes such places of notoriety as Paradise Square, Cow Bay, and Bottle Alley, and such gangs as the Roach Guards, Plug Uglies, Shirt Tails, and Dead Rabbits.

Highlights include

• Five Points visitors—Davy Crockett, Charles Dickens, and Abraham Lincoln
• A Five Points success story—Al Smith—Tammany protégé, state governor, presidential candidate
• The oldest Jewish graveyard in North America
• The Roman Catholic church with Anglican, Cuban, Irish, Italian, Chinese, and Buddhist history

Tour Leader: Joyce Gold

Price: $10/person, with a maximum of 40 People

Image: The Riots In New York : Conflict Between The Military And The Rioters In First Avenue. Image from The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1863.

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