... was a large body of water, approximately sixty feet deep and fed by an underground fresh water spring. According to historians it was a popular place for picnics and relaxation. A bridge was erected over one of the outgoing canals called the "kissing bridge" (Peter Brightbill, Historian2). Collect Pond ... , debauchery and other descriptive words that kept them in, historically, the first slum of America. That is what the Five Points are remembered for; the rowdy, disgusting, unsafe community in lower Manhattan during the nineteenth century where races, cultures and politics clashed daily...

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