- Paperback: 191 pages
- Publisher: History Press (July 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1596296771
- ISBN-13: 978-1596296770
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,361,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Dark Side of the Lower East Side, Dec 4 2009
By Joyce Mendelsohn - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Guide to Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York City's Lower East Side (Paperback)
Eric Ferrara's aptly titled book, A Guide to Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of the New York City's Lower East Side, reaches back to the crazy days of gangland shootings, street fights, mob hits, extortion plots, assassinations, police riots and various other violent events that once engulfed the turf of Irish gangs, Chinese tongs, Jewish racketeers, Italian tough guys, anarchists and psychos in the immigrant slums of the Five Points, Little Italy, Chinatown, the Bowery, Lower East Side and the East Village from the mid-19th century to well into the 20th - where weapons of choice ranged from revolvers, machine guns, knives, hammers, clubs, hatchets, broken bottles, brass knuckles, poison, acid and bombs. The book is laid out geographically so that walkers can discover surviving sites where all this mayhem took place. For armchair travelers, just sit back and enjoy a good read. The descriptive writing is lively and informative. The mug shots of the likes of Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach, Louis "the Lump" Pioggi, "Waxey" Gordon, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Charles "Lucky" Luciano and John Gotti are delicious. Everyone interested in crime and the dark side of the Lower East Side will be thrilled by this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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real history, real people, Aug 10 2009
By David Bellel - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Guide to Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York City's Lower East Side (Paperback)
As a native New Yorker I am always struck on the lack of historic markers for a city with such a rich history. E.g. contrast NYC with Philadelphia. This book goes a long way in filling in those much needed gaps for often times ignored neighborhoods and streets where real people (sometimes not so nice people) created real history
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I was looking forward to this and was not disappointed, July 13 2009
By ny history - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Guide to Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York City's Lower East Side (Paperback)
This is a genuinely unique and impressive piece of work, chock full of intensely gruesome, block by block tales of murder & mayhem. But this is more than that, touching on tales of the bizarre and curious, the famous and infamous, and the everyday man who were victims of their times. I recommend.
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