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FIVE POINTS
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1. Davy Crockett, Charles Dickens, Abraham Lincoln, Russian Grand Duke all visited 5 points. What was this practice called ?
5. Five Points was America's first willing large scale racial integration melting pot. Emancipated African Americans mixed with the Irish, Anglo, Jewish and Italian citizens of NYC. Five points was an African American neighborhood first, then the Irish came in whose Jigs mixed with African's shuffle to create what kind of dancing ?
7. Where Columbus Park is now was Mulberry Bend's Bottle Alley, which was the Whyó Gang’s Headquarters. In 1882 close to Columbus Park off Mulberry by Bayard was another alley called________ Row ?
11. Protestant religious groups like the Methodist Eposcopal Church cleaned up the area, and built a new mission for $36,000 on the site. In the 1880's the Chinese started to fill up 5 points. What other group in the 1880's started taking over 5 Points ?
15. Herbert wrote the 1927 book The Gangs of New York. What was his last name ?
16. 5 points was known for its bare knuckles fighting bouts. The Sixth Ward was commonly known as the ______Sixth ?
17. Isaiah _______was an old political boss of the 6th Ward and Tammany Hall politician who owned the Empire Club at 25 Park Row. This Captain helped lead the Astor Place Riots as the leader of the Plug Uglies and the Dead Rabbits. What was this rich gamblers last name ?
18. At the dead end of the northern side of Little Water street by the Collect Pond landfill, was the very lowest and worst place in New York. It housed tenements nicknamed Brick Bat Mansion, Gates of Hell, and Jacob's Ladder (named for its dangerous outside rickety broad wooden staircase that you needed to climb to enter the tenement). What was the name of this infamous cul de sac that at its mouth was only 30 feet wide ?
19. What author named Jacob was known for his 5 point photos ?
21. The 5 Point riot gave gang members the excuse to loot many stores on those two days of rioting. What General lead the military to break up the riot at 9 PM of its second day.
22. Anthony street was changed to Worth (named after Mexican War hero General William Worth). Around 1850 Orange was renamed after what other Mexican War hero ?
24. The Eastman Gang was part of the toughs that Tammany boss Big Tim Sullivan used on election day and for other violent events. The Eastman Gang was a Jewish gang that was lead by Monk Eastman (Ostermann) who liked cats and pigeons and owned a pet store on Broome Street in the LES (lower east side). His nickname was short for Monkey, due to his ugly face which kept getting worse due the amazing numbers of fights he got himself into. What was his real first name ?
26. In 1856 a Methodist minister named Lewis M. Pease built the the nation's first settlement house called the Five Points House of what ?
27. Paul Kelly lead the Five Pointers Gang, an early 1900 gang that launched what NYC crime family ?
28. Just south of Paradise Square, the biggest room in Coulter's Brewery was known as the Den of Theives until it was torn down in 1852. About twenty rooms filled its basement that once housed the machinery of the old brewing plant. In 1853 it was replaced by the Five Points what ?
29. Donovan's Lane by Baxter street was also called Murderers Alley, and this other alley was home to the one eyed thief called George Appo. George was born to an Irish mother and what nationality father ?
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2. Bandits Roost was on the bend at 59 1/2 Mulberry Street, between Bayard, Park, Mulberry, and Orange (now Baxter) Streets. What is the current name for what left of Park street ?
3. Before the Irish and Italians came to 5 Points, African Americans were living off Mulberry street in what was called the Negro plantations. What was the other name for this neighborhood ?
4. Tenement Real Estate deals boosted the family wealth of the Astors, Schermerhorns and what other famous family ?
6. On July 4, 1857, the 5 Points Riot started when two gang members from the Roach Guards/Dead Rabbits (an Irish Catholic gang from 5 points), assaulted two native born American policemen. The policeman sought refuge from their assaulters by ducking into a tavern owned by a fellow named Pat. In 1857 which saloonkeeper named Pat was leader of one of the factions of the Bowery Boys ?
8. Members of the Five Points Gang included Charles Luciano, aka Lucky Luciano, James T Ellison aka Biff, and Pat Riley. What was Pat Riley nickname ?
9. In 1852, what Society bought the Old Brewery for $16,000 to tear it down ?
10. Until the Board of Heath banned human habitations in basements, many hookers, thieves and killers lived in 5 Point shanties that were below street level and had very small doors. What were these houses called ?
12. At the start of the 5 Point riot the 5 Point gangs met the Bowery Boys and the Atlantic Guards by the intersection of Bowery and what street ?
13. Five points wasn't as violent as history makes it out to be, in the mid 1850's, there was only 30 murders per year in the whole NYC. Reports that 5 points had a murder a night for 15 years seems like fiction. Murderers Alley was a dark lane that ran south from the dirty green door of #14 Baxter Street, past the east wall of a five story down to Pearl Street. What was this five story building called ?
14. During the first day of the 5 point riot, the Roach Guards/Dead Rabbits attacked the Bowery Boy clubhouse at 40-42 Bowery. The next day Roach Guards/Dead Rabbits looted the other Bowery Boy hangout, smashing furniture, tearing up its floorboards while drinking its liquor. What was this tavern near Broome and Bowery named ?
20. In 1855, out of 14,000 residents of 5 Points, two thirds of them were what nationality ?
22. Johnny Torrio's father grocery store mostly sold beer and moonshine, which lead a pint sized Johnny to a bouncer job at NYC's roughest and wildest bar that was located on Pell street called Nigger Mike's. What famous Irving got his start as a singing waiter there ?
23. The 5 points neighborhood was an area that was bounded by the Bowery, Canal Street, Centre Street, Chatham Street (Park Row) and what Street ?
25. The whole west side of Mulberry was torn down in 1896-1897, between Bayard and what current street ?
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