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Five Points Mission at 63 Worth Street in Manhattan
Five Points Mission at 63 Worth Street in Manhattan

From the August issue: 1915: Five Points Mission demolished for courthouse

Demolition of the historic Five Points Mission House, just north of City Hall on a site with an infamous past, began 98 years ago this month.

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The six-story building, at 63 Worth Street, was home to a charity operated by the Ladies’ Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. [more]