Five Points

The official page for FIVE POINTS. 1863. Lower Manhattan. The intersection of Orange, Cross, Anthony and Little Water Streets.

Five Points, a slum neighborhood, notorious for disease, crime and prostitution, serves as home to poor Irish Catholic immigrants, free blacks and white Protestants. In the midst of the first wave of Civil War drafts, John Diamond, a recently widowed father and Irish jig champion will do anything to ensure a future for his son, even if it means challenging Willie Lane, a young black step-dancing p  ...