num_pages: 544
description: Details the notorious neighborhood that was once filled with gaming dens, bordellos, dirty streets, and tenements, that welcomed such visitors as Charles Dickens and Abraham Lincoln, and brings to light the hidden world that existed beneath its squalor.
language: English
title: Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
titlecomplete: Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
genres: Historical, Crime, History, American History, 19th Century, Urban Studies, New York, Research, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1442
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: New York City Book Award
category: History
publisher: Free Press