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The Old Brewery is depicted in the Martin Scorsese 2002 film Gangs of New York as the Five Points Christian Mission, tenement building, and pauper playhouse. The 2012 video game Assassin's Creed III has the "Boston Brawlers Tournament" in Boston , Massachusetts , within an old brewery modeled after the former Five Points building.
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.
In 1854, the society published a book on the history of the Methodist mission in the Five Points, The Old Brewery, in which Pease received no mention with exception to a brief reference to "our first missionary". Pease and his wife refused to leave the Five Points and instead opened a nondenominational mission. [3]
Five Points was the name of a neighborhood in New York City's old Sixth Ward in Lower Manhattan, and was a notorious slum. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Mulberry Bend was considered one of the worst parts of the Five Points, with multiple back alleyways such as Bandit's Roost, Bottle Alley and Ragpickers Row. In 1897, due in part to the efforts of Danish photojournalist Jacob Riis , Mulberry Bend was demolished and turned into Mulberry Bend Park , an urban green space designed by Calvert Vaux .
Articles relating to the Five Points Gang, a criminal street gang of primarily Irish-American origins, based in the Five Points of Lower Manhattan, New York City, during the late 19th and early 20th century. It wa founded by the Italian-American criminal Paul Kelly.
Five Points South Historic District, Birmingham, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jefferson County Five Points Historic District (Huntsville, Alabama) , NRHP-listed Five Points, California
Kips Bay Brewing Company, also known as Kips Bay Brewing and Malting Co. and Patrick Skelly Brewery, was a brewery located in Manhattan, New York City, that operated from 1894 to 1947. The former company's buildings have been repurposed into offices and are one of two groups of surviving brewery structures in Manhattan from the period when ...