Fictional Portrayals
- The Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York (1995) by Peter Quinn
- On Secret Service (2000) by John Jakes
- Paradise Alley (2003) by Kevin Baker
- New York: the Novel (2009) by Edward Rutherfurd
- Newt Gingrich's alternate history novel Grant Comes East (2004)
Theatre and film:
- The short-lived 1968 Broadway musical Maggie Flynn, starring Shirley Jones, was set in the Tobin Orphanage for black children (modeled on the Colored Orphan Asylum).
- Gangs of New York (2002), a film directed by Martin Scorsese, culminating in the riots; it portrayed conflated, mostly fictional events and was criticized for its inaccurate history by the journalist Pete Hamill, among others, as Five Points did not participate in the draft riots. It purportedly portrayed "the birth of Manhattan and the way the different waves of immigrants have shaped New York City's evolution".
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