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Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum (Reprint Edition) by Tyler G. Anbinder Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-452-28361-2 / 0452283612 ISBN-13: 978-0-452-28361-9 / 9780452283619 All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. It housed America's most impoverished immigrants-the Irish, Jews, Germans, Italians, and African-Americans. Located in today's Chinatown and Little Italy, Five Points played host to more riot |