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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1832/07/00 The Cholera epidemic kills 3,515 dead out of a population of 250,000 in New York City. The disease is particularity fierce in the slum areas, such as Five Points, where Blacks and Irish Catholics live. Cholera Invades the West
1888/00/00 More than 3,000 infants die on Mulberry Street before reaching 6 years of age.
1888/02/12 The Sun (New York City) Work Jacob A Riis and his fellow crusaders' first illustrations of Gotham's crime and misery by night and day are published in an unsigned article by The Sun. How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York
1888/02/12 Jacob A Riis Work Jacob A Riis and his fellow crusaders' first illustrations of Gotham's crime and misery by night and day are published in an unsigned article by The Sun. How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York
1890/00/00 Jacob A Riis Author "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" by Jacob A Riis, with illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author, is published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons. How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York
1897/00/00 New York City completely demolishes the slums on the west side of Mulberry Bend and builds the Five Points Park.

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Particulars for Mulberry Bend, Five Points NYC:
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