New York, 1846. La città è profondamente divisa tra le classi sociali e la parte più povera,
fatta di immigrati di varia origine, è ancora più frammentata in differenti fazioni, a seconda …

… Gangs, wrote AO Scott of the New York Times, is an “indelible epic of 19th-century urban
criminality.” 1 Whether we like it or not, Gangs … In certain respects, Gangs deserves praise. Few …

… In pursuit of this analytic agenda we focus on a recent film, Gangs of New York (henceforth
GONY). GONY weaves together a historical narrative, a tragic plot and spectacular …

… What is of interest in the posthumous creation of a "foreword" to The Gangs of New York
is that Borges's sketch of Monk Eastman takes off from a completely different part of Asbury's …

We found it disconcerting to see the article"'Gangs of New York'and the Whitewashing of
History," in the May/June issue (2003) of a magazine of your caliber. Please allow us to explain …

… So, ‘Gangs of New York’ should have been right up my alley. It was not. … The film moves
in and out of warrens of caves the sorts of which New York has yet to see. Indeed, ‘Gangs’ is a …

… M artin Scorsese’s recent film Gangs of New York depicts fundamental concerns of politics-…
There is no real, or realized, civil community in Gangs of New York, but there are burning …

… , the gangs of The Five Points in New York have become the … the original gangs of the Five
Points in New York and see … Rabbits, we look at the gangs that operated not just in the Five …

… Although ‘Gangs of New York’ offers a gritty and remarkable spectacle of working‐class
life in New York City before the Civil War, it is likely to disappoint social historians. Even well‐…

On August 17, 1954, the District Attorney for Kings County, New York charged four white
teenagers with a series of crimes committed in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.'The District …