What is the name of the New York district shown in Gangs of New York?
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Five Joints
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Five Points
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Three Streets
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Three Towns
B
Correct answer
Explanation
Martin Scorsese's 2002 film Gangs of New York is set in the Five Points district of lower Manhattan during the mid-19th century. Five Points was a notorious slum neighborhood named after the intersection of five streets: Anthony (now Worth), Orange (now Baxter), Cross (now Mosco), Little Water (no longer exists), and Mulberry Street.