* The Five Points neighborhood housed some 500,000 immigrants in the area now defined by Mulberry, Worth, Park and Baxter streets.

* An annual police report dated 1863 cited 462 people arrested for felonious assault; 88 people for insulting women in the street; eight for attempted rape; and 48 for murder. The number of reported truant children was 4,633.

* The Draft Riots of 1863, one of the darkest moments in New York history, were four days of violence that erupted when the Union Army began conscripting mostly immigrant men to fight in the Civil War. Rioters took out their anger on black-owned businesses and homes.

* “Uptown” referred to the neighborhood between 23rd and 34th streets.

* Present-day 150th Street — where many African Americans settled after the Draft Riots — was called Carmansville.

* A lunatic asylum stood on the site that is now Columbia University.

* A regular handgun fired six shots but took 15 to 20 minutes to reload.