"From Beautiful Pond To A Ghetto": Tom Fontana's Walking Tour Of Gritty Five Points

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<p>Collect Pond in 1798 <br/> <br/><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5C1WfSzOpm8" width="640"></iframe><img src="http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/m?ci=ade2011-ca&at=view&rt=banner&st=image&ca=copper&cr=site&pc=watcheffect&ce=siteservedtag&rnd=[timestamp]"/></p>

(Image via Wiki Commons)

<p>Tom Fontana walks around what used to be Five Points <br/> <br/><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5C1WfSzOpm8" width="640"></iframe><img src="http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/m?ci=ade2011-ca&at=view&rt=banner&st=image&ca=copper&cr=site&pc=watcheffect&ce=siteservedtag&rnd=[timestamp]"/></p>

(BBC America)

<p>Five Points, as re-created in <em>Copper</em> <br/><br/><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5C1WfSzOpm8" width="640"></iframe><br/><br/><img src="http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/m?ci=ade2011-ca&at=view&rt=banner&st=image&ca=copper&cr=site&pc=watcheffect&ce=siteservedtag&rnd=[timestamp]"/></p>

(BBC America)

<p>Mulberry Bend, in 1898 <br/><br/> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5C1WfSzOpm8" width="640"></iframe><br/><img src="http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/m?ci=ade2011-ca&at=view&rt=banner&st=image&ca=copper&cr=site&pc=watcheffect&ce=siteservedtag&rnd=[timestamp]"/></p>

(Jacob Riis, Museum of the City of New York)

<p>Five Points, as re-created in <em>Copper</em><br/><br/><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5C1WfSzOpm8" width="640"></iframe><br/><br/><img src="http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/m?ci=ade2011-ca&at=view&rt=banner&st=image&ca=copper&cr=site&pc=watcheffect&ce=siteservedtag&rnd=[timestamp]"/></p>

(BBC America)

<p>Formerly Five Points: Canal Street in Chinatown <br/><br/><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5C1WfSzOpm8" width="640"></iframe><br/><img src="http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/m?ci=ade2011-ca&at=view&rt=banner&st=image&ca=copper&cr=site&pc=watcheffect&ce=siteservedtag&rnd=[timestamp]"/></p>

(Photograph by Mattron on Flickr)

<p>Formerly Five Points: Worth and Baxter Street today <br/><br/> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5C1WfSzOpm8" width="640"></iframe><img src="http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/m?ci=ade2011-ca&at=view&rt=banner&st=image&ca=copper&cr=site&pc=watcheffect&ce=siteservedtag&rnd=[timestamp]"/></p>

(Photograph by wallyg on Flickr)

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