where is the five points located in new york city?

Answer 1

Five Points was New York City's mythical slum. Named for the points created by the intersection of Park, Worth, and Baxter streets, the neighborhood was known as a center of vice and debauchery throughout the nineteenth century.

Outsiders found Five Points threatening and fodder for lurid prose. Describing a visit in 1842, Charles Dickens wrote: "This is the place: these narrow ways diverging to the right and left, and reeking every where with dirt and filth. Such lives as are led here, bear the same fruit here as elsewhere. The coarse and bloated faces at the doors have counterparts at home and all the wide world over. Debauchery has made the very houses prematurely old. See how the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly, like eyes that have been hurt in drunken frays. Many of these pigs live here. Do they ever wonder why their masters walk upright in lieu of going on all-fours? and why they talk instead of grunting?" The archaeological excavation of the Foley Square courthouse block provided the opportunity to examine the physical remains of life in this infamous place.

The "Gangs of New York" movie, incidentally, is based in this locale.

Today, Five Points is better known as the Restaurant by that name. Five Points' name is an homage to the infamous band of 19th-century street criminals whose headquarters were nearby, but there's nothing even vaguely derelict about this atmosphere. Outdoorsy elements make for one of the most tranquil settings around--in the center of the dining room, water trickles from a tree trunk, while light pours down through a skylight in back. The Food A wood-burning oven figures prominently into the hearty New American cuisine. The dinner menu changes daily, but dishes like duck breast with pickled Bing cherries, grilled lamb with yellow wax beans and tagliarini with squash blossoms and pesto are typical. The Sunday-only brunch is one of the best around, with first-rate wood-oven baked eggs rancheros and a beer-battered fried fish sandwich on brioche.

If you'd like to see what the Five Points looked like and find the locations of all the "Five Points" now in NYC, please use the link given below to view the map.

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Answer 2

Columbus Park in Chinatown in New York City. A few streets remain unchanged there. The rest of them are fill up with buildings or change to parks.

They were the five streets that enter into what is today's Columbus Park in Chinatown in New York City.

The other guy probably got his information from the internet. His answer is only partially correct.

Five Points are real places once upon a time in New York City.

That is why you should do research from books, library, government archives instead of the internet.