The Gangs of New York
Subtitle: An Informal History of the New York Underworld
Publisher: Dorset Press; Brand: Hippocrene Books; Hippocrene Books
Published: December 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780880294294
Subjects: Criminology; Social History; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; History - U.S.; Social Deviance
First sentence: THE FIRST of the gangs which terrorized New York at frequent intervals for almost a century were spawned in the dismal tenements that squatted in the miasmal purlieus of the Five Points area of the Bloody Ould Sixth Ward, which comprised, roughly, the territory bounded by Broadway, Canal street, the Bowery and Park Row, formerly Chatham street.