It's called Five Points: The Nineteenth Century New York Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became The World's Most Notorious Slum. (7:30) Five Points is published by the ...

The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from March 21, 1896, Page 2 Buy Reprints. ... The five points, in those days, was famous as the abode of thieves, ...

Martin Scorsese’s new film, “Gangs of New York,” has positioned the director as the best-known chronicler of the infamous 19th century slum called the Five Points. But 160 years before ...