The Gangs of New York
Subtitle: An Informal History of the Underworld
Edition: Largeprint edition
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781587244636
Subjects: New York (N.Y.); Sociology; History - U.S.; Crime And Criminals; Urban Sociology; History; History - General History; Social conditions; New York (State); New York; General; Gangs; United States - State & Local - General; Criminology
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.