Five Points Donegal The story that Anbinder tells

The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America’s immigrant past

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Five Points Donegal The story that Anbinder tellsAll but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. While it comprised only a handful of streets, many of Americas most impoverished African Americans and Irish, Jewish, German, and Italian immigrants sweated out their existence there. Located in todays Chinatown, Five