Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
...spares no gritty detail in this recreation of this immigrants' hell on earth...  --The Washington Post Book World, January 5, 2003Tyler Anbinder has so thoroughly re-created Five Points that the stench of life there all but rises from its pages.  --New York Daily News