Five points
Subtitle: the 19th-century New York City neighborhood that invented tap dance, stole elections, and became the world's most notorious slum
Edition: 1st Free Press trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781439141557
Subjects: History; Social conditions; Slums; Ethnic neighborhoods; City and town life
Table of contents: title: Chapter One.; title: Prologue: The Five Points Race Riot of 1834 -- ; title: The Making of Five Points --  -- Chapter Two.; title: Prologue: Nelly Holland Comes to Five Points -- ; title: Why They Came --  -- Chapter Three.; title: Prologue: "The Wickedest House on the Wickedest Street That Ever Existed" -- ; title: How They Lived --  -- Chapter Four.; title: Prologue: The Saga of Johnny Morrow, the Street Peddler -- ; title: How They Worked --  -- Chapter Five.; title: Prologue: "We Will Dirk Every Mother's Son of You!" -- ; title: Politics --  -- Chapter Six.; title: Prologue: "This Phenomenon, J̀uba'" -- ; title: Play --  -- Chapter Seven.; title: Prologue: The Bare-Knuckle Prizefight Between Yankee Sullivan and Tom Hyer -- ; title: Vice and Crime --  -- Chapter Eight.; title: Prologue: "I Shall Never Forget This as Long as I Live": Abraham Lincoln Visits Five Points -- ; title: Religion and Reform --  -- Chapter Nine.; title: Prologue: "He Never Knew When He Was Beaten" -- ; title: Riot --  -- Chapter Ten.; title: Prologue: "The Boy Who Commands That Pretty Lot Recruited Them for the Seceshes" -- ; title: The Civil War and the End of an Era --  -- Chapter Eleven.; title: Prologue: "So It Was Settled That I Should Go to America" -- ; title: The Remaking of a Slum --  -- Chapter Twelve.; title: Prologue: "These S̀laves of the Harp'" -- ; title: Italians --  -- Chapter Thirteen.; title: Prologue: "The Chinese Devil Man" -- ; title: Chinatown --  -- Chapter Fourteen.; title: The End of Five Points.