GANGS OF NEW YORK

THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE

STORY CHAPTER LINKS
1. STORY PREFACE
2. BACKGROUND
3. FIVE POINTS
4. LIFE IN FIVE POINTS
5. THE BOWERY
6. THE IRISH ARRIVE
7. GANGS AND TAMMANY HALL
8. DEAD RABBITS vs. THE BOWERY BOYS
9. BILL THE BUTCHER
10. MURDER OF BILL THE BUTCHER
11. MONK EASTMAN AND JOHNNY SIROCCO
12. 1863 DRAFT LAW
13. 1863 DRAFT RIOTS
14. REACTION TO THE RIOTS
15. MORE HISTORICAL FACTS
16. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES

PREFACE

From every corner,
as you glance about you in these dark retreats,
some figure crawls half-awakened...
Where dogs would howl to lie,
women, and men, and boys
slink off to sleep,
forcing the dislodged rats to move away
in quest of better lodgings.

 Charles Dickens'
Observations About
New York City’s "Five Points" Neighborhood
1842

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Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.


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