Category: Gangs of New York
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I’ve edited and published a new collection of articles from a 19th century sporting weekly newspaper. Theodore “The.” Allen was the proprietor of one of the most infamous dance hall saloons of the 1870s and 1880s in New York City, The “American Mabille.” This work originally appeared serially in one of the weekly sporting newspapers,…
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Although up to my neck in another research (for publication) project about the balloon-parachute act, I can’t resists making little research forays back into the world of nineteenth-century criminals. I’ve decided to go ahead with an idea I had a year or two ago: to deconstruct the anecdotes conveyed by Herbert Asbury in his classic…
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