Five points new york

This 1766 map shows the some of the earliest known slips in what was then New Amsterdam, including Peck’s Slip, which once sheltered George Washington and his troops from the British Army. Though you’d never know it nowadays, many of the long, narrow parks that cut into the Eastern edge of lower Manhattan and run almost all the way to the East River once served as some of the primary boat slips for old New York’s shipping enterprise nearly two hundred years ago. Dating back to when the first…

Five Points of Manhattan during the 19th century. Now Chinatown, this area was previously a notorious slum.

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(above and below) Tenements on the Lower East Side of New York in the 1880s. Photos by Jacob Riis. Social housing, or what we in the United States call public housing, means government supported li…

Jacob Riis photo, 1888-90 of rookery near Five Points, NY, as example of area squalor.

Post with 106 views. Tintype portrait of a gentleman butcher, 1875