This is a list of identities referenced in Herbert Asbury's 1928 book The Gangs of New York including underworld figures, gang members, crime fighters and others of the Old New York era from the mid- to late 19th and early 20th century. Some were also portrayed in Martin Scorsese's 2002 film Gangs of New York.
Gang members
Batavia Street Gang
Baxter Street Dudes
Bowe Brothers
Bowery Boys
Car Barn Gang
Charlton Street Gang
Corcoran's Roosters
Daybreak Boys
Dead Rabbits
Dutch Mob
Eastman Gang
Five Points Gang
Forty Thieves
Gas House Gang
Gopher Gang
Grady Gang
Hell's Kitchen Gang
Hook Gang
Hudson Dusters
Humpty Jackson Gang
Italian Dave Gang
Jimmy Curley Gang
Lenox Avenue Gang
Leslie Gang
Little Auggies
Mandelbaum Gang
Marginals
Molasses Gang
Nineteenth Street Gang
Pansies
Patsy Conroy Gang
Potashes
Slaughter House Gang
Squab Wheelman Gang
Swamp Angels
Tenth Avenue Gang
Tub of Blood Bunch
Walsh Gang
White Hand Gang
Whyos Gang
Yakey Yakes
Yiddish Black Hand
Independent leaders
Other criminals
Burglars and sneak thieves
Confidence men and swindlers
Fences and financers
Gamblers
Prostitutes
City officials
Police
Draft riots
Politicians
Tammany Hall sluggers
Other personalities
Bowery Bums
Celebrity residents
Chinatown residents
Industrialists
Journalists
Reformers
Saloon keepers
Sportsmen
References
External links
- Asbury's The Gangs of New York – Annotated
- 1829 Gangs of New York
