The Gangs of New York

The Gangs of New York focuses on the saloon halls gambling dens and winding alleys of the Bowery and the notorious Five Points neighbourhood dramatising the poverty and shocking violence of a turbulent time when notorious gangs like the Plug Uglies the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys ruled the streets and had colourfully named criminals like Dandy John Dolan Bill the Butcher and Hell-Cat Maggie lurk in the shadows. Indispensible urban history classic Herbert Asburys breakneck journey into the underworld of nineteenth-century New York features a rogues gallery of prostitutes pimps poisoners pickpockets murders and thieves.