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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Famous quotes containing the words fictional and/or portrayals:
“One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world’s memory.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past—the portrayals of family life on such television programs as “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” and all the rest.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)