Gangs of New York

Five Points is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan notoriously known for its gangs, crime, and poverty. This neighborhood was mostly recognized as an Irish neighborhood in the mid-1800s. The reputation of the Irish was that they were criminal by nature, and the horrible conditions of the Five Points helped affirm that reputation. Initially a reservoir in the 1700s, Collect Pond was located just north of today’s City Hall. This pond was the root of spring water for Dutch inhabitants of downtown…

Gangs of New York and Far and Away This quarter, we watched two movies, The Gangs of New York and Far and Away. These two movies had a lot of similarities but also had some differences. The similarities and differences include characters, setting, and plot. The first connections of both movies are in the characters. Similarities between the movies include the following. Both Far and Away and The Gangs of New York have an Irish man who is in New York. The two men are Joseph Donnelly (Far and…

cycle of blacks being born, raised, and dying in the hood. During the middle of the twentieth century, the city of New York built many new communities to account for the many new immigrants that the US welcomed from all across the world. Many African Americans and Caribbean Americans flocked to the new community called “the Bronx” due to the cheap price of housing and hope for a new beginning. Little did they know, the Bronx was not a place meant for them to strive. Many blacks raised in these…

The authors, Ford Fessenden and Haeyoun Park analyzes Chicago behaviors in homicide rates compared to New York. The purpose of this article was to explore how low incomes, segregation of neighborhoods, and gangs’ results for the increase of death rates. Chicago was at a rate of homicides as New York, however, as New York has been steadily decreasing Chicago continuously has its unstable death rates recorded. Chicago is one of the most racially segregated neighborhoods. From the South side to…

people have been tattooing the walls of New York with everything from murals to gang tags. Shortly after this epidemic of graffiti the New York government started to do away with the things defacing their pristine walls by whiting them out. Unfortunately, they did not just white out the gang tags. The colorful paintings of New York’s citizens were washed out by paint itself--a very ironic way to go. Some may argue that these graffiti works were what gave New York character; they would even say…

this day, through the use of drugs, gangs and police discrimination the United States has created an environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest contributor to incarcerations among black males. According to the NAACP “about 14 million whites and 2.6 million blacks report to using illicit drugs” that’s about six times as many whites using drugs than whites, yet when looking at the prison population,…

Mayor de Blasio, NYPD Commissioner Blast DOJ Statement Calling New York ‘Soft on Crime’ The Department of Justice in a letter on Friday has threatened to cut funding to New York City, as well as eight other jurisdictions that do not fully cooperate with federal immigration agents due to their Sanctuary City policies. In the statement, New York City was called out for being “soft on crime” due to “gang murder after gang murder” along with other jurisdictions such as Chicago and the California’s…

During the Civil War times, New York was full of many slums, including Five Points in Manhattan. It was full of gangs, crimes and several bars. It was full of many Irish immigrants trying to escape the Great Famine in Ireland. Five Points was considered one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York. This paper will tell you all about the neighborhood of Five Points. Five Points was completely made up of immigrants. Irish people came to escape the Great Famine, and many of them also lived…

women to assume graffiti is just a name scrawled on a wall but graffiti is more than a name or a tag, it is an art form. Urban graffiti was born in New York City in the late 1960s. Taki 183, one of the first known graffiti artists, used a maker to write his name all over New York City. In 1971, Taki was interviewed for an article in the New York Times. It did not take long for people to start to imitate Taki. The number one goal of graffiti is to "get up" which means to have you name written…

directed by Walter Hill. This movie is a drama centered around a New York City gang,…