Book 2003
Gangs of New York
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- Publisher
- Arrow Books Ltd
- Published
- 2003
- Criminals
- Gangs
- Crime
- Social conditions
- Conditions sociales
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.