Jews and the Notorious Five Points: A Walking Tour

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy presents a walking tour with urban historian and educator Bradley Shaw through Manhattan’s notorious Five Points neighborhood, memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s 2002 film “Gangs of New York” and one of the worst slums that ever existed. Before the great Eastern European migration to the Lower East Side from 1880 to 1920, immigrant Jews with no money settled and built synagogues within the confines of this slum, in what is today’s Chinatown. The tour explores how this diverse group of residents dealt with the squalid and unsanitary conditions of “The Ould Sixth Ward.”