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Inside Five Points: Everyday Life in 1850s New York | Sleep Story
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In the early eighteen fifties, a few crowded streets in lower Manhattan held families from Ireland, Germany, England and elsewhere, living in rooms behind shops and courtyards just north of City Hall.
Nothing here needs to be followed to the end. If you fall asleep while the hydrant is still dripping in the yard, the evening has done what it came to do.
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Tonight: we spend an ordinary week in Five Points, New York, in the early eighteen fifties. We carry water upstairs from the yard, sew shirts beside the window, buy coal by the…
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