2006-10-01 14:00:27 · 9 answers · asked by colin050659 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Wasn't that the place in New York City that the movie "The Gangs of New York" was centered around?
2006-10-01 14:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by dlobryan1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Five Points is New York City's mythic 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. This virtual exhibit begins to tell the story of what was found.
2006-10-01 21:29:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm assuming you mean a point where five states come together. No, only the Four Corners where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona come together. A monument is located just off US 160 near there, but I've heard it is actually somewhat off the mark.
The only other such markers that I know of occur at the corner of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas (next to Missouri 43 at Southwest City, MO) and at the corner of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas (on State Line Road, a local road, just south of US 166 east of Baxter Springs, KS).
2006-10-01 21:06:56 · answer #3 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Towns
Five Points, Alabama
Five Points, Florida
Five Points, North Carolina
Five Points, Ohio
Five Points, Pennsylvania
In Atlanta
Five Points (Atlanta), the center of downtown
Little Five Points community, east of downtown
Five Points MARTA station
Elsewhere
Five Points (Athens), a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia
Five Points (Columbia), a shopping district in Columbia, South Carolina
Five Points (Denver), a neighborhood northeast of the downtown area
Five Points (Jacksonville), Jacksonville, Florida
Five Points (Manhattan), a former slum neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City
2006-10-02 06:54:35 · answer #4 · answered by Lynn Rosemary 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 points is in New York City 5 streets converge at an intersection i don't know the name of the streets. I'm not sure it still exists
2006-10-01 21:34:13 · answer #5 · answered by s.ville 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No 5 points that I know of, but there are 4 corners! You can be standing in these four states at once: Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado!
2006-10-01 22:48:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You mean the five Burroughs of New York.!!! the movie Gangs of New York refers to it as the 5 points or fingers in your hand, close them and it's a fist.!!!
2006-10-01 21:12:24 · answer #7 · answered by JAM123 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, i think there is a 5 points... i'm not sure where exactly, and i'm not even sure which states you can see, but i'm pretty sure that Tennessee is one of the states.
I doubt that helps much, but I know it's around the Appalachian mountains
2006-10-01 21:08:43 · answer #8 · answered by willow oak 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Five points was in NY city. Gangs of New York is correct. I'll have two points please.
2006-10-01 21:13:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋