PatYoung
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The New York Draft Riots began on July 13, 1863. This week we recall that horrible time with five articles from 2013. The first article looks at the most famous, and infamous, immigrant neighborhood in the days before the riots began. The Five Points was the locus of New York’s Irish community. Famous, and famously misrepresented, the demolished neighborhood is New York’s modern Foley Square and Chinatown. http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/five_points_on_the_edge_of_the_draft_riots