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Author : Herbert Asbury
Release : 1928
Genre : Crime
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Gangs of New York by : Herbert Asbury
Download or read book The Gangs of New York written by Herbert Asbury. This book was released on 1928. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Asbury
Release : 2016-07-26
Genre : True Crime
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Book Rating : 699/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Gangs Of New York by : Herbert Asbury
Download or read book The Gangs Of New York written by Herbert Asbury. This book was released on 2016-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Asbury presents here a vivid and startling account of New York gangdom from its beginning in Revolutionary times to comparatively recent days. Here are the stories of the great gangs which terrorized the city and at times menaced its very existence—from the Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits to the Gophers and the Eastmans. Kid Dropper, Dopey Benny, Gyp the Blood and Owney Madden are a few of the gangster luminaries described, not to mention such female evildoers as Gallus Mag and Sadie the Goat. Nor have the underworld’s lesser lights been overlooked; for these pages are crowded with a host of gang warriors, pickpockets, tong leaders, murderers, politicians, gamblers, prostitutes, dive-keepers and a few would-be reformers. Mr. Asbury has created such a rich, factual background for this chronicle of crime and gangsterism that the book gains considerable stature as a revealing picture of New York City’s history through a century of frenzied growth and expansion. Whether you read it as such or merely for amusement, it is a swift, exciting experience.
Author : Herbert Asbury
Release : 2002
Genre : Criminals
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Book Rating : 744/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Gangs of New York by : Herbert Asbury
Download or read book The Gangs of New York written by Herbert Asbury. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Asbury pre
Author : Wallace Edwards
Release : 2020-09-12
Genre : True Crime
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Book Synopsis The Real Gangs of New York by : Wallace Edwards
Download or read book The Real Gangs of New York written by Wallace Edwards. This book was released on 2020-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★ Is true better than fiction? ★★★ The subject of a classic history by Herbert Asbury and an Academy Award-nominated film by Martin Scorsese, the gangs of The Five Points in New York have become the stuff of legend. But how much is legend and how much is fact? In this short book, we examine the original gangs of the Five Points in New York and see how accurate the film was (spoiler alert: not very) and what Asbury may have gotten wrong in his original research on this era. From the Bowery Boys to the Dead Rabbits, we look at the gangs that operated not just in the Five Points, but also those who wanted a piece of the action there and engaged in gang wars that would leave even modern thugs quivering in their boots!
Author : Desmond Skyers
Release : 2017-10-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 416/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jamaican Gangs of New York by : Desmond Skyers
Download or read book Jamaican Gangs of New York written by Desmond Skyers. This book was released on 2017-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of a better life, these new migrants arrived in New York City from the poverty-stricken and violent ghetto of Western Kingston, Jamaica. Predisposed to violence and experienced in the life of the street, they aged between twenty and thirty-five. They were different from all those that came before them from this exotic island. With the potential for a drug sale at any time, these new arrivals squared-off against one another in the streets of New York City, fighting for control of the illicit yet lucrative cocaine and crack market. From Brooklyn to Queens, Manhattan to the Bronx, the city was divided into three gang strongholds, basically no-go areas. Joe Dog and the Loyalist posse took control of South Jamaica, Queens; Blacka and the Raiders posse control Brooklyn; and Fowl and the Centralist posse controlled the Bronx. In addition to the Jamaicans, there were two black American gangs, one came out of Brooklyn and the other from Queens. When they crossed paths with the Jamaicans, it was war. Then there was the Gem Girls. This was a gang of girls from western Kingston led by a light-skinned lesbian named Patsy. These girls were as ruthless as their male Jamaican counterpart. The desire for instant gratification and material satisfaction was impetus for the violence and killings that followed. None dared to stand in their way. This violence caught the attention of the newly elected mayor Jack Jackson, who established a gang task force, headed up by a no-nonsense former Vietnam veteran named Todd Sullivan. On Todds first day on the job, he shook his head and swore. These fucking Jamaican posses are turning our city into a fucking killing zone. We are going to send every fucking one of them to prison.
