The movie Gangs Of New York (and the novel I'm 'writing' now) are both set in the Five Points neighbourhood in Manhattan, famous as a disease-ridden slum filled with organised crime. It was so bad there that the place was considered the world's worst slum (definitely worse than The Rocks, the equivalent area here in Sydney) and eventually cleared. Now it no longer exists.
Is there a POD which could possibility lead to Five Points still existing as a NY neighbourhood (although probably suffering gentrification like other similar places) to the 2st century? What could this?