The Bloody Sixth
Joshua Brown: The Real Gangs of New York, 23 January 2003
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
by Herbert Asbury.
Arrow, 366 pp., £6.99, January 2003,0 09 943674 4 Show More
by Herbert Asbury.
Arrow, 366 pp., £6.99, January 2003,
“... ould’ Sixth Ward of lower Manhattan capped a long struggle between Mayor Fernando Wood and the Republican-dominated New York State legislature. At issue were a stringent new temperance law and a state-controlled police department, both designed in part to undermine the corrupt Democratic mayor’s power base: Irish immigrants and the saloons ... ”