Five Points: The 19th-century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious...

Five Points: The 19th-century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious...
ISBN-10
0684859955
ISBN-13
9780684859958
Category
City and town life
Pages
532
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
Tyler Anbinder

Description

Details the notorious neighborhood that was once filled with gaming dens, bordellos, dirty streets, and tenements, that welcomed such visitors as Charles Dickens and Ambraham Lincoln, and brings to light the hidden world that existed beneath the squalor--a world that invented tap dancing and hosted the prize-fight of the century. 25,000 first printing.

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