Reddit reviews The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
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Martin Scorcese read the 1927 book Gangs of New York in 1970.
Tried to get it made through the 70's and it came out in 2002.
32 years after he read the book
> The odyssey began on January 1, 1970, when Scorsese, staying at a friend's house, ran across a copy of The Gangs of New York, Herbert Asbury's 1928 history of Five Points. Scorsese immediately called a friend, screenwriter Jay Cocks. "Marty said, 'Think of it like a Western in outer space,' " Cocks recalls with a laugh. It was all very "seventies."
I'll never forget Ann Coulter's rant about how she is a "Native". She was straight up referring to herself in this sense, the Know Nothings and Native Americans. She a fuckin Bowery Boy, too?
If anyone is interested in learning more about this era and the history, read Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury. America has so many fuckin skeletons in its closet and it always has.
Do you mean other than Gangs of New York?
The non-fiction version of The Gangs of New York that the movie is based on.
A good book Herbert Asbury's classic "Gangs of New York", which comes with a dust jacket blurb from no less than Jorge Luis Borges:
“A univeral history of infamy, the history of the gangs of New York contains all the confusion and cruelty of the barbarian cosmologies.”
—Jorge Luis Borges
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The book "Gangs of New York" by Herbert Asbury that the movie was loosely based on is an awesome pseudo/folk history that I think she'd enjoy if she's into fantasy. Other than that, I don't know. There isn't any sort of universal NYC thing my friends here all seem to have. I don't really have anything with New York on it aside from my mountain of Rangers gear. Definitely don't get like, a skyline photo or something like that. That's an NYU freshman move.
You could try this book. I haven't read it, but I know a few people you enjoyed it.
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld