: Anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, and fiercely patriotic.
: Riots quickly turned from anti-government to horrific racial violence. Duration : Four days of burning, looting, and lynching. subtitle Gangs of New York
The 1850s and 1860s in lower Manhattan were defined by a brutal collision of , immigration , and political corruption . While Martin Scorsese’s 2002 film brought this era to the screen, the real history of the Five Points neighborhood was often even more chaotic. The Epicenter: Five Points : Anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, and fiercely patriotic
📍 : The chaos of Old New York was the painful "birth" of the modern American melting pot. and underground fighting.
: Built on gambling, prostitution, and underground fighting.