The Five Points in 1859: Crossing of Baxter (late Orange) Park (late Cross) & Worth (late Anthony) Sts.

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1860

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Valentine's Manual

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By 1859, conditions in the Five Points had not improved. And outsiders—whether southern born William Bobo or New Yorker George Foster—still described the neighborhood in the same derogatory terms that Dickens had used some years earlier as the very emblem of moral turpitude.

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“The Five Points in 1859: Crossing of Baxter (late Orange) Park (late Cross) & Worth (late Anthony) Sts.,” Black Gotham Archive, accessed July 10, 2018, https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/40/.