Five Points, Manhattan

Persimpangan Five Points dilukis oleh George Catlin pada tahun 1827; gedung segitiga di tengah gambar terletak di "Paradise Square", Anthony Street di kanan, Cross Street di kiri dan Orange Street membentang kiri ke kanan di bagian depan gambar

Five Points (atau The Five Points) dulunya merupakan sebuah permukiman di pusat Lower Manhattan di New York City. Permukiman ini berbatasan dengan Centre Street di barat, The Bowert di timur, Canal Street di utara dan Park Row di selatan. Bekas permukiman yang dikenal sebagai Five Points ini sekarang terbagi antara Civic Center (kawasan gedung pengadilan dan administratif kota, negara bagian dan federal) di barat dan selatan dan Chinatown di timur dan utara.

Nama Five Points berasal dari persimpangan lima arah yang diciptakan oleh Orange Street (sekarang Baxter) dan Cross Street (sekarang Mosco); dari persimpangan ini, Anthony Street (sekarang Worth) muncul dan membentang ke barat laut, membentuk blok segitiga sekaligus "titik" kelima. Di sebelah barat "titik" ini, berdiri Little Water Street (tidak ada lagi) yang membentang dari utara ke selatan, membentuk plot segitiga yang kelak diberi nama Paradise Square atau Paradise Park.

Five Points mendapat perhatian internasional sebagai sebuah kawasan kumuh penuh kejahatan dan penyakit yang berdiri selama 70 tahun.

Lihat pula

Wikidata: Five Points

• Chinatown
• Little Italy, Manhattan

Catatan kaki

Bahan bacaan

• Anbinder, Tyler, "From Famine to Five Points: Lord Lansdowne’s Irish Tenants Encounter North America’s Most Notorious Slum", American Historical Review 107 (April 2002): 351-387.
• Anbinder, Tyler, Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. 2001 ISBN 0-684-85995-5.

Pranala luar

• Gregory Chritiano:Where the Gangs Lived-New York's Five Points [1]
• Official site of the federal government's Five Points archaelogical dig
• Article including contemporary news accounts of 1857 Police and Gang Riots
• Five Points on Google Maps
• 2004 Frances Carle (Asbury)
• History of NY Chinatown and the Five Points includes a map of the area then, and now.

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