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4 Ιουν 2013 · From river pirates to knife‑wielding adolescents, get the facts on seven of 19th century New York’s most notorious street gangs.
11 Δεκ 2019 · The long, turbulent history of New York gangs can be traced all the way back to the city's Five Points slums of the early 19th century, an infamous cesspit of crime, poverty, and violence.
13 Οκτ 2023 · The history of the Gangs of New York is peppered with notable figures and incidents. Johnny Torrio, who later mentored Al Capone, was a member of the Five Points Gang. Monk Eastman, a notorious gang leader, controlled the Lower East Side with his gang and was involved in various criminal activities, including theft and extortion.
7 Μαρ 2021 · Robert McNamara. Updated on March 07, 2021. It is impossible to overstate how notorious the lower Manhattan neighborhood called the Five Points was throughout the 1800s. It was said to be the roost of gang members and criminals of all types, and was widely known, and feared, as the home turf of flamboyant gangs of Irish immigrants.
21 Φεβ 2020 · Discover the grisly history of gang culture as it's evolved from New York City's earliest days of nativist and immigrant groups to the Italian Mafia of today.
This turbulent period in New York City was marked by violence and corruption, events that were brought to the silver screen in Martin Scorsese’s 2002 historical drama Gangs of New York.
The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs.
