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Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
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“Dickens’s visit to Five Points made it fashionable for well-to-do New Yorkers to go “slumming,” visiting Five Points as Dickens had done, with a police escort, to marvel at its poverty and gawk at its displays of vice. Indeed, the term “slumming” may have been coined there to describe such tours.”
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
“How the Other Half Lives”
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
“Dead Rabbit” became the standard phrase by which city residents described any scandalously riotous individual or group. But there seems to be no justification for referring to the Bowery Boys’ adversaries by this name.32”
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
