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	THE FIVE POINTS
		She hopes to bring different racial, cultural, ethnic, political and artistic voices together to stand on common ground at the The Five Points Poets' Lounge.
		As an artist, he is exploring a new awareness and a greater sense of self through his interactions at THE FIVE POINTS.
		Known to be full of high-spirited energy, Joanna has been fervently supporting THE FIVE POINTS for two years, and is honored to be a recent member of the dedicated crew.
	www.nycfivepoints.com /about (1166 words)

	Five Points, Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Five Points (or The Five Points) was a notorious slum centered on the intersection of Worth St. (originally Anthony St.), Baxter St. (originally Orange St.) and a now demolished stretch of Park St. on Manhattan island, New York City, New York, in the United States.
		At Five Points' height only certain areas of London's East End vied with it in sheer population density, disease, infant and child mortality, unemployment, violent crime, and other classic ills of the destitute.
		For example, the melding of nationalities in Five Points led to the acceptance of the Roman Catholic Church in American opinion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Five_Points_(Manhattan) (768 words)

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		Manhattan is bound by the Hudson River to the west and East River to the east.
		Manhattan Island is bound by the Hudson River to the west and the East River to the east.
		Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels to New Jersey to the west, and three New York City boroughs: the Bronx to the northeast; Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island to the east and south.
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	Mafia-International
		One of the vilest slums in the history of creation the Five Points district was a rat infested, mud swamp of broken down tenement housing with robbery and murder an everyday occurrence.
		The Five pointers would meet often at the Brighton Dance Hall on Great Jones Street this flashy dive of a joint was owned by Paul Kelly, socialites would flock to it for the pleasure of rubbing shoulders with the gangsters.
		The main source of income for both the Five Points Gang led by Paul Kelly and the Eastman gang led by Monk was from stuss games (similar to faro), prostitution and jobs they were assigned by their wealthy friends in politics.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /fivepoints.html (3082 words)

	Five Points - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Five Points Gang, a 19th century gang based in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City
		Five Points (Athens), a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia
		Five Points (Denver), a neighborhood northeast of the downtown area
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Five_Points (145 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Fourteen Points (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While many of the points were specific, others were more general, including freedom of the seas, abolishing secret treaties, disarmament, restored sovereignty of some occupied lands, and the right of national self-determination of others.
		The speech, that was made without prior coordination or consultation with his counterparts in Europe, reached for the highest ideals, and was a precursor to the League of Nations (see point 14).
		A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Fourteen_Points (557 words)

	Amazon.ca: Five Points : The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Five Points is gone, though a few of its streets remain, marking the edge of Chinatown.
		Long ignored by academics, Five Points an internationally notorious intersection in what is now lower Manhattan's Chinatown that was the site of crime and poverty for most of the 19th century is now a hot topic in history, sociology and even pop fiction (much of Caleb Carr's bestselling The Alienist was set there).
		It repeticiously cites a year or an event as a turning point for the Five Points area and when one (finally) arrives at that year, no detail is given as to what happend, why it happened or the transition to the new state of affairs.
	www.amazon.ca /Five-Points-Nineteenth-Century-Neighborhood-Elections/dp/0684859955 (1443 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Five Points Gang
		Eastman survived an assassination attempt in 1901 when an unknown Five Pointer shot him twice in the stomach in Chatham Square, but the undoubted climax of the conflict was the shoot-out on Rivington Street in 1903.
		In 1905, the Five Points Gang were involved in another conflict, this time with the Gophers.
		Francesco Iole aka "Frankie Yale" was the first leader of the Five Points Juniors and went on to became the chief operator in Torrio’s Brooklyn ventures.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /5points.htm (1248 words)

	urbanography - Where "The Gangs" Lived--New York's Five Points District, by Gregory J. Christiano
		The Five Points was a lurid geographical cancer filled with dilapidated and unlivable tenement houses, gang extortion, corrupt politicians, houses of ill-repute and drunkenness and gambling.
		The Five Points so named in the 1830’s from the convergence of the intersection of five streets: Mulberry, Anthony (now Worth St.), Cross (now Park), Orange (now Baxter), and Little Water Street (no longer exists).
		By 1860 Five Points was a little less violent, but still a slum.
	www.urbanography.com /5_points/index.html (1024 words)

	Five Points Band
		Five Points Band's original songs are an extension of the Delta kings, but the mud on their boots is from the Hudson River, not the Mississippi; the band plays deep country blues even though it's from a big city.
		The Five Points Band is a third-generation branch of the blues family tree, and they've clearly listened closely to the voices of their elders.
		New York's Five Points Blues Band hails from Chinatown, NYC in the area where the old Five Points neighborhood was once located.
	www.fivepointsband.com /reviews.html (1868 words)

	2 On Your Side - Print Full Story
		Manhattan cut a 20-point deficit to 55-47 after a Flood jumper with 3:11 to play, but neither team could convert a basket over the next 2:11.
		Steeves netted five points during the spurt, capping the run with a fastbreak layup off a Chesko assist with 13:59 remaining.
		Manhattan responded with a 15-4 spurt, capped by a Reed layup to trim the advantage to 47-38 with 8:19 remaining.
	www.wgrz.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=26842 (530 words)

	Neighborhoods 1
		The new residents to Five Points in the early to mid 1800s were European immigrants and recently freed slaves from the south.
		Five Points was solely responsible for giving the Sixth Ward its nickname, 'Bloody Sixth.' However, with all the violence and depravity of the Points, the Sixth Ward still didn't own the title of the most violent ward in the city.
		McGlory was born in Five Points, and served as a leader to the area's Forty Thieves gang.
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	Five Points (Manhattan) - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fusion of the Irish jig with the basically African shuffle gave rise in the short term to Tap Dance (see Master Juba) and in the long term to a music hall genre that was a major precursor to American Jazz and Rock and Roll.
		Although the tensions between the African Americans and the Irish were legendary, their cohabitation in Five Points was perhaps the first large scale example of grassroots racial integration in American history.
		What was Five Points is today covered mostly by large city and state administration buildings known collectively as "Foley Square", plus Columbus Park, Collect Pond Park and various facilities of the New York Department of Corrections clustering around lower Centre Street.
	voyager.in /Five_Points_(Manhattan) (694 words)

	Five Points, Manhattan
		Five Points (or The Five Points) was a notorious slum on Manhattan island, New York City, USA from about 1820 to about 1880, when slum clearance efforts succeeded in razing it and re-purposing the land.
		At its height, only certain areas of London's East End vied with it in sheer population density, disease, infant and child mortality, unemployment, violent crime and other classic ills of the destitute.
		The neighborhood was featured in Martin Scorsese's 2002 film Gangs of New York.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fi/Five_Points.html (80 words)

	NCAA Game Summary - Manhattan vs. Wake Forest - HoopsVibe
		Manhattan pulled as close as two after Wake’s Justin Gray missed a pair from the line while Holmes hit two free throws on the other end with 44 seconds left in the game.
		Manhattan held its own on the boards throughout the contest despite being outrebounded by a 37-32 margin.
		Paul, who scored his team’s final five points of the half, converted his only three-point attempt and went 6-for-7 from the field in the opening 20 minutes.
	www.hoopsvibe.com /basketball-news/game-reviews-ncaa/ncaa-game-summary---manhattan-vs--wake-forest-ar10993.html (538 words)

	Manhattan Review
		Manhattan won the Spiel des Jahres at Essen this year (for more on Essen, see My First Essen by Ken Tidwell).
		Manhattan is about building skyscrapers in six cities (including, of course, New York) represented on the game board by six 3x3 grids.
		Three points is nothing to sneeze at, but I find the price is usually not worth it.
	www.gamereport.com /tgr9/manhattan.html (1142 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Eastmans
		Archenemies of the Five Points Gang, their story is one of corrupt politicians, a dirty cop and spectacular gangland shoot-outs.
		The predominantly Italian Five Points Gang lead by Paulo Vaccerelli aka "Paul Kelly" worked in the same area as the Eastmans and the two gangs were fierce rivals.
		As far as the Five Points Gang was concerned, the war was over, but for Kid Twist, the issue had just been put on the back burner.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /eastmans.htm (1689 words)

	Web Site Challenges Assumptions About 19th Century Manhattan Slum
		And clay pipes with the American eagle molded on them pointed to immigrants who, notwithstanding the convictions of nativists of the time, were proud of their adopted land.
		Archaeologists, historians and other experts have spent five years analyzing the artifacts, which came largely from trash heaps of the time, and are completing a report on their findings.
		Their conclusion is that Five Points was a much more complex place than Dickens and company would have people believe: a slum, yes, but also a bustling center of industrious people striving to lead upright lives under trying circumstances.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/digimet/050597digimet.html (1033 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Manhattan 74, Seton Hall 70
		Andre Sweet had a career-high 19 points for Seton Hall (7-9) in a game in which neither team led by more than five points for the 17:35.
		Flores, who scored a career-high 44 points last Thursday, then gave Seton Hall a chance in the tightly officiated game when he was called for an offensive foul.
		The winning streak is the longest for Manhattan since it won 14 straight in the 1994-95 season, a year it made the NCAA tournament and posted a first-round win over Oklahoma.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/college_basketball/20030127-1937-bkc-manhattan-setonhall.html (394 words)

	"Gangs of New York": Fact vs. Fiction
		This is Manhattan's infamous Five Points slum, inhabited by Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, and Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York.
		When Dickens reported on Five Points in 1842, the neighborhood was on the edge of an explosion.
		From 1992 to 1998 she led the team that analyzed 850,000 pieces of the Five Points puzzle—artifacts unearthed during the construction of a federal courthouse in what used to be Five Points.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/03/0320_030320_oscars_gangs.html (788 words)

	University at Buffalo - Men's Basketball - Go Bulls!
		MANHATTAN, NY - UB won a thrilling double-overtime game at Manhattan on Tuesday night, defeating the Jaspers 68-66 in a game that took two extra five-minute overtime periods to decide.
		UB was down by as many as seven points, 57-50, with 6:49 remaining, but the Bulls charged back, closing regulation with a 9-2 run to force the extra periods.
		Alexei Vasiliev added 15 points, including 10 straight points for UB during a three-minute stretch to keep the Bulls in the game.
	www.ubathletics.buffalo.edu /mensbasketball/news/manhattan98.shtml (421 words)

	Manhattan Project Digital Library - Introduction - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the present time we are cataloguing and digitizing Manhattan Project primary source documents and other items and presenting them as "collections" under the veteran's name who provided them to us.
		The Manhattan Project was voted as the most important news story of the 20th century.
		The Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association is the largest on-line repository of primary source documents related to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
	www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org /COTMP/Digital-Library-1.htm (329 words)

	Amazon.com: Five Points: Books: Tyler Anbinder (Site not responding. Last check: )
		FIVE POINTS was the most notorious neighborhood in nineteenth-century America.
		The Five Points was an intersection, not a neighborhood.
		It's true that 19th Century writers did refer to the area around the Five Points using the phrase "Five Points" as a metonymic reference for the area, but it's quite misleading to claim, is Andinder implicitly does, that the Five Points was a neighborhood distinct from the Lower East Side, for example.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452283612?v=glance (2049 words)

	Amazon.com: Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I had heard about the Five Points neighborhood of New York City a number of years ago, but had little familiarity with it other than that it was a slum area.
		I did find the part about the politics of the Five Points area to be tedious, but that is not the fault of the book, but rather my lack of interest.
		Five Points was the name given to the neighborhood that sprang up in New York on top of the Collect lake after it was drained and covered over in 1813.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684859955?v=glance (2417 words)

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	Manhattan bounces Maryland from NIT - Boston.com
		It was the most points yielded by Maryland in the first half this season.
		It was 75-65 before a 3-pointer by Mike Jones and a layup by Caner-Medley got the Terrapins within five points with 5:42 to go.
		Manhattan led 32-30 before Caner-Medley received a foul and a technical foul -- his third personal -- on top of it.
	www.boston.com /sports/colleges/mens_basketball/articles/2006/03/18/manhattan_bounces_maryland_from_nit?mode=PF (492 words)

	Michelle Nevius \| Five Points Walking Tour \| NYC Walking Tours
		FIVE POINTS AND THE GANGS OF The neighborhood of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York and Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives was
		But we will talk about why they Five Points no longer exists, while at the same time looking at tenements that are still standing, including the city's oldest.
		In a reversal, this novel is told from the point of view of an anti-labor manufacturer.
	www.walknyc.com /points.htm (658 words)

	Manhattan Manhattan/Fairfield Fairfield Men's College Basketball recap on ESPN
		The score was tied at 36 at the break but Fairfield opened the second half with seven straight points and never trailed after that.
		Jermaine Clark scored five points during the run and finished with 12 points for the game.
		Durelle Brown led the Jaspers (12-12, 9-7) with a game-high 24 points.
	espn.go.com /ncb/2000/20000220/recap/mabfab.html (166 words)

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