Editing Five Points, Manhattan (section)

==The area today==

[[File:FivePointsNewYork2014.JPG|thumb|Five Points Intersection in 2014.  In the 19th Century, Anthony Street, which is now Worth Street, is in the foreground, and Orange Street, which is now Baxter, enters from the left. Columbus Park is in the background.]]

The area formerly occupied by Five Points was gradually redeveloped through the twentieth century.<ref name="Gannon 2021 k038">{{cite web | last=Gannon | first=Devin | title=NYC's historic Five Points neighborhood is officially recognized with street co-naming | website=6sqft | date=October 14, 2021 | url=https://www.6sqft.com/nycs-historic-five-points-neighborhood-is-officially-recognized-with-street-co-naming/ | access-date=May 13, 2024}}</ref> In the west and south, it is occupied by major federal, state, and city administration buildings and courthouses known collectively as [[Civic Center, Manhattan]]. In addition Columbus Park, [[Collect Pond Park]], [[Foley Square]], and various facilities of the [[New York City Department of Correction]] are clustered around lower Centre Street.<ref name="Frishberg 2024 p905">{{cite web | last=Frishberg | first=Hannah | title=New York’s lost neighborhoods | website=Curbed NY | date=May 29, 2018 | url=https://ny.curbed.com/2018/5/29/17332770/new-york-neighborhoods-eminent-domain-history-west-side-story | access-date=May 13, 2024}}</ref> [[The Tombs|The Tombs jail/prison]], in which many criminals from Five Points were incarcerated and quite a few executed, stood near the site of the City Prison Manhattan at 125 White Street;<ref name="Marcius 2020 y431">{{cite web | last=Marcius | first=Chelsia Rose | title=NYC’s most notorious jail: a look back at The Tombs | website=New York Daily News | date=October 17, 2020 | url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2020/10/17/nycs-most-notorious-jail-a-look-back-at-the-tombs/ | access-date=May 13, 2024}}</ref> the latter prison stood on the site until 2023.<ref>{{cite news | last=Chen | first=Stefanos | last2=Chan | first2=Mable | title=Anger in New York Over Huge Chinatown Jail Project | work=The New York Times | date=April 1, 2024 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/nyregion/jail-construction-chinatown-manhattan.html | access-date=April 13, 2024}}</ref> The northeastern and eastern portion of Five Points is now within the sprawling [[Chinatown (Manhattan)|Chinatown]]. Many tenement buildings dating from the late 19th century still line the streets in this area.
Since 2021, the intersection of Worth and Baxter streets has been co-named "Five Points", a reference to the former neighborhood.<ref name="Gannon 2021 k038"/>