YOU won’t find the notorious Five Points neighborhood if you wander downtown – in the late 19th century, the city knocked down the squalid tenements and built Chinatown’s Mulberry Bend Park, now called Columbus Park, in their place.

Five Points – so name for the points of the intersection of Orange, Anthony and Cross streets (where Baxter, Worth and Mosco streets now meet) – was located about a half-dozen blocks northeast of City Hall.

While nothing is left of the putrid quarter, clues of the life there were discovered during digging for the new federal courthouse at Foley Square in the early ’90s.

Archaeologists recovered hundreds of items such as glass tumblers (a lot of drinking went on there), a backyard privy (no indoor plumbing), oyster shells, and even the skeletal remains of a monkey (perhaps owned by an organ grinder), all offering clues to life in that teeming neighborhood.