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FIVE POINTS was the most notorious neighborhood in nineteenth-century America.
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fourth election district, fifth election district, third electoral district, battle with the slum, third election district, naturalization frauds, child street musicians, tenement problem, indictment papers, sixth ward, fire laddies, famine immigrants, windowless bedrooms, assistant alderman, notorious neighborhood, rear tenements, sporting men, wooden tenements, worst tenements, mission records, postbellum years, opium joints, manuscript census, tenement conditions, ward alderman
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New York, Five Pointers, United States, Old Brewery, African Americans, Mulberry Bend, Gore Booth, Bayard Street, Irish Catholic, Chatham Square, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, San Rocco, Fourth Ward, Irish Americans, North Sligo, Harper's Weekly, Tammany Hall, Worth Street, Yankee Sullivan, Bottle Alley, Con Donoho, Pearl Street, Bowery B'hoys, Children's Aid Society, City Hall
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