The Gangs of New York
Subtitle: An Informal History of the Underworld
Contributors: Jorge Luis Borges (Foreword)
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: October 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781560252757
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Social History; New York; New York - Local History; Offenses And Offenders; United States - 20th Century; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; New York (N.Y.); Criminology; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; History / United States / State & Local; Gangs; Social conditions; United States - General; New York (State)
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.