five points (new york, n.y.)

In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England. Based on the life of Master Juba.

In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England. Based on the life of Master Juba; includes historical note.

Traces the history of the nineteenth-century New York neighborhood known as Five Points where poverty, riots, political scams, and alcoholism combined with the rich cultures of arriving immigrants and gave rise to such characters as Boss Tweed and the Bowery B'hoys.

In 1863, a man returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer and gang rival.

New York archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Special Agent Pendergast try to solve a 130-year-old serial murder case after the dismembered remains of thirty-six people are found on the site of a nineteenth-century moneymaking spectacle called a "cabinet of curiosities.".