Five Points, Manhattan - Gallery

Gallery

• African Burial Ground on the south shore of the Collect Pond-active until 1792, was the burial ground for New York City's free blacks and African slaves, located a short distance southwest of future Five Points intersection.

• African American slave being burned at the stake after New York Conspiracy of 1741. 17 black men, two white men, and two white women were hanged at the gibbet next to the Powderhouse on the narrow point of land between the Collect Pond and the Little Collect, 13 were burned at the stake a little east on Magazine Street

• Edward Mooney House built between 1785 and 1789 by wealthy butcher Edward Mooney on the corner of The Bowery and Pell Street on land seized from James Delancey, a British loyalist during the American Revolutionary War

• The Bulls Head Tavern (c. 1755) located approximately at The Bowery and Canal Street served the thriving slaughterhouse and tannery industry, the area was surrounded by holding pens with slaughterhouses along Mulberry Street

• A corner building which served as a grocery store and liquor store on Orange Street and Anthony Street at the southwest corner of Mulberry Bend in Five Points (c. 1852)

• Five Points brick tenements began replacing older wooden buildings; the southwest corner of Mulberry Bend in Five Points with Orange Street running north

• Bottle Alley located in Mulberry Bend just south of Bandit's Roost. A crime scene photograph used in a murder trial. The X marks location where victim was found.

• Rear pre-Civil War Era tenements constructed of wood in Mulberry Bend in the Five Points neighborhood.

• Five Points House of Industry at 155 Worth Street in 1893 opposite Paradise Square

• Baxter Street Alley, Rag-Picker's Row" at 59 Baxter Street (c. 1898 Jacob Riis)

• Barney Flynn's Old Tree House a bar in the Edward Mooney House in 1899 showing Chuck Connors

• Chinese Theatre 5-7 Doyers Street, scene of multiple murders

• Mulberry Street (c.1900) taken from west side of Mulberry north of Bayard Street looking toward Canal Street

• New York Halls of Justice known as "The Tombs"

• Chinese Tuxedo restaurant at 2 Doyers Street

• Church of the Transfiguration (built 1801 as Zion Protestant Episcopal Church bought 1853 by Catholic Archdiocese of New York) on the corner of Mott and Mosco Streets. The parish was founded by Padre Félix Varela y Morales in 1827

• The Black Horse Tavern on the corner of Mulberry and Park Street, the Church of the Transfiguration is in the background; picture is c.1895-1899

• Mugshot of Al Capone-nicknamed "Scarface", was member of the Five Points Gang along with Lucky Luciano