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Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a young Irish immigrant released from prison. He returns to the Five Points seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Amsterdam's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people in 1860's New York. Show More • Rating: R (Language|Intense Strong Violence|Nudity|Sexuality) • Genre: History, Drama • Original Language: English • Director: • Producer: • Writer: • Release Date (Theaters): Dec 20, 2002 wide • Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2003 • Runtime: 2h 48m • Distributor: Miramax Films • Production Co: Miramax • Sound Mix: Dolby A, Dolby Stereo, DTS, SDDS, Surround, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital • Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1) From Martin Scorsese comes the gritty period crime drama Gangs of New York. After his father is killed in a gang war Amsterdam Vallon is sent to a reformatory, and when he gets out he returns to his old neighborhood in lower Manhattan to find it being run by his father's killer, a nativist crime lord named Bill the Butcher; who he goes to work for, secretly plotting revenge. Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz lead the cast and give strong performances; especially Day-Lewis, who does a fantastic job at creating a compelling villain. However, the script is a little unfocused; with subplots about the Civil...

Synopsis As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in lower Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. Before long, Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of an erupting wave of full-blown gang warfare, as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland. Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Henry Thomas, Eddie Marsan, John Sessions, Brendan Gleeson An evening at the theater takes a bloody turn. In this scene: The Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis), Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio), Johnny (Henry Thomas), Killoran (Eddie Marsan), Lincoln (John Sessions), Monk (Brendan Gleeson)

The notoriety of the Five Points gangs was immortalized in the classic book Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury, which was published in 1928. Asbury's book was the basis of the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York, which portrayed the Five Points (though the film was criticized for many historical inaccuracies). While much of what has been written about the Five Points Gangs was sensationalized, if not entirely fabricated, the gangs did exist. In early July 1857, for example, the "Dead Rabbits Riot" was reported by the New York City newspapers. In days of confrontations, members of the Dead Rabbits emerged from the Five Points to terrorize members of other gangs. Charles Dickens Visited the Five Points The famed author Charles Dickens had heard about the Five Points and made a point of visiting when he came to New York City. He was accompanied by two policemen, who took him inside buildings where he saw residents drinking, dancing, and even sleeping in cramped quarters. "Poverty, wretchedness, and vice, are rife enough where we are going now. This is the place: these narrow ways, diverging to the right and left, and reeking everywhere with dirt and filth... "Debauchery has made the very houses prematurely old. See how the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly, like eyes that have been hurt in drunken frays... "So far, nearly every house is a low tavern; and on the bar-room walls, are coloured prints of Washington, and ...

Assistant Bronx District Attorney Irvin J. Goldsmith questions six members of The Daggers, a Harlem street gang, about their clash with a gang of teenagers from the Bronx in 1953. On the desk are two 22-caliber rifles which police found in the boys' car. They were on their way to "get even" for an ambush on two of their members, before they got picked up by police. Getty Images A small group of young gang member stroll down the street in 1955. New York City was once overrun by relatively small street gangs that controlled streets and sometimes entire neighborhoods. Today, New York gangs are much more loosely organized than their predecessors, with even smaller gangs fewer and far between than in decades past. Carl Purcell/Three Lions/Getty Images Members of an East Village motorcycle gang are booked and held for questioning at a New York police station after being seized in a three-room "pigsty and munitions factory." 1969. They were questioned in the fatal burning of a man believed to be a member of a rival gang. Frank Russo/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images After the death of respected peacemaker Cornell "Black Benjie" Benjamin — who was beaten and stabbed to death after attempting to break up a fight between rival gangs in the South Bronx — more than 150 black and Puerto Rican youths from 20 gangs gathered in the Gym of the Boys Club of America for the Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting in December 1971. The conference of street gangs was called to bring about the end of the...

New York City Hoods Map Full Tour of New York City Gangs & Hoods View all the New York City hoods of the five boroughs, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island, along with sections of North Jersey, Long Island, and Westchester County. While this map highlights New York City gangs, the map below provides much more than highlighting the current local gangs by breaking down history and other facts of most neighborhoods within the heart of the city and surrounding areas. New York City Gang Map Key: Red = Bloods | Blue = Crips/GDs | Black = Unknown | Green = Hispanic Gang | Dark Purple = Mix *Make sure to leave a comment, especially if something is missing or wrong. New York City Hoods: Brooklyn In the most known and the largest borough view all the legendary communities, from the 90z to 21st Street of Flatbush, Crown Heights’ Brower Park and Franklin Ave, Jay-Z’s and Notorious BIG’s birthplace of Bed Stuy, the birthplace of the WOO and Choo movement in Brownsville, and Pop Smoke’s hood of Canarsie, also known as the Floss, all along with East New York, Coney Island, and more. New York City Hoods: Queens While not as much known as the Bronx, Brooklyn, or even Manhattan’s Harlem, but Queens still has a few well known sections, like Jackson Heights and Corona, the housing projects of Queensbridge and Ravenswood, the Far Roc (Far Rockaway) community, and the borough’s most notable region Southeast Queens, home to South Side Jamaica, Rochdale, Queens Village, Hollis, ...