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	Mafia-International
		One of the vilest slums in the history of creation the Five Points district was a rat infested, mud swamp of broken down tenement housing with robbery and murder an everyday occurrence.
		The main source of income for both the Five Points Gang led by Paul Kelly and the Eastman gang led by Monk was from stuss games (similar to faro), prostitution and jobs they were assigned by their wealthy friends in politics.
		The Eastman Gang crumbled without Monk Eastman, his successor who took the reigns after Monks incarceration Kid Twist was murdered by the Five-Points gang.Monk Eastman was released from prison in 1909 he never regained his leadership position with the gang and drifted into a life of petty crime mainly theft.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /fivepoints.html (3082 words)

	Five Points Gang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Five Points Gang was a 19th-century criminal organization based in the Sixth Ward (The Five Points) of New York City.
		There were many gambling dens and "houses of ill repute" in the Five Points area, and it had a reputation as a dangerous place to travel, a place where many people had been mugged, particularly at night.
		The rackets and criminal activities that the Five Points Gang had established were taken over by the Mafia gangs that were becoming more powerful in the first twenty years of the century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Five_Points_Gang (1342 words)

	Street Gang Dynamics
		Gangs as most people think of them probably began to be recognized by the general public around the nation with the birth of the Los Angeles gangs in the early seventies.
		If a gang member witnesses a fellow member failing to dis a rival gang through hand signs, graffiti, or a simple "mad dog" or stare-down, they can issue a "violation" to their fellow posse member and he/she can actually be "beaten down" by their own gang as punishment.
		Gangs are certainly a community problem, and the community must galvanize to properly respond by dealing with those already involved and offering alternatives to those who accept.
	www.sfcasa.org /articles/street_gang_dynamics.htm (3542 words)

	Lucky Luciano
		There was one kid who refused to pay, and when Luciano tried to beat him up, the kid gave him a good fight: The kid's name was Meyer Lansky, another legendary mafioso on the making, and who would remain friends with Luciano for life.
		By 1916, Luciano and his gang the Five Points Gang were suspected by the police as being involved in many murders.
		Lansky was also a member of that gang, as well as Bugsy Siegel.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lu/Lucky_Luciano.html (941 words)

	Common-place: Vox Pop: The Gang's Not All Here
		Gangs of New York is certainly unusual in focusing on the city and its "netherworld" during the Civil War.
		The film's inspiration is Herbert Asbury's 1928 compendium of urban myths, The Gangs of New York, the narrative epicenter of which is the Five Points, the intersection of three streets that was the symbolic heart of one of the poorest city neighborhoods in nineteenth-century America.
		In contrast to the Five Points depicted in Gangs of New York, the real neighborhood was more notorious for its congestion, disease, alcoholism, and prostitution than for violent crime (the whole city in the mid-1850s averaged about thirty murders a year).
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/cp/vox-pop/200304.shtml (2322 words)

	The Wild Bunch Week
		Known as a center of vice and debauchery throughout the nineteenth century, Five Points was the neighborhood named for the points created by the intersection of Park, Worth, and Baxter streets.
		Five years later, the gangs of the Five Points became involved in the Draft Riots of 1863.
		Atop the old Five Points now rests a federal court building, an ironic and perhaps fitting tribute to this single corner that gave birth to the American gangster.
	www.history.com /exhibits/wildbunch/fivepoint_main.html (387 words)

	Five Points Band
		Five Points Band's original songs are an extension of the Delta kings, but the mud on their boots is from the Hudson River, not the Mississippi; the band plays deep country blues even though it's from a big city.
		The Five Points Band is a third-generation branch of the blues family tree, and they've clearly listened closely to the voices of their elders.
		New York's Five Points Blues Band hails from Chinatown, NYC in the area where the old Five Points neighborhood was once located.
	www.fivepointsband.com /reviews.html (1868 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Five Points Gang
		In 1901, the gang became involved in a vicious territorial dispute with a gang called the Eastmans.
		In 1905, the Five Points Gang were involved in another conflict, this time with the Gophers.
		Francesco Iole aka "Frankie Yale" was the first leader of the Five Points Juniors and went on to became the chief operator in Torrio’s Brooklyn ventures.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /5points.htm (1248 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Johnny Torrio
		In the early days, the gang members made their income as thieves until Torrio had saved enough money to open a gambling den under the guise of a pool hall.
		In 1905 the James Street Gang became the Five Points Juniors acting as a training ground for future members of the Five Pointers.
		However, the Five Points Gang’s constant warring with the Eastmans and Gophers bothered Torrio.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /torrio1.htm (2318 words)

	Gang History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This gang, called the Five Points Gang, because of its home turf being situated in the Five Points (Bowery) Section of Lower Manhattan, would change the mold of the American outlaw forever.
		The most notorious recruit into the Five Points Gang was a teenaged boy of Italian descent who was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1899 to immigrant parents.
		As street gangs, influenced by mobsters such as Capone, flourished during the 1920's and 30's gangs became a symbol of lower income neighborhoods and ethnic ghettos.
	www.gripe4rkids.org /his.html (1067 words)

	Neighborhoods 2
		The street gangs were in the pockets of the politicians and were mostly left alone by the police.
		While the street gangs of Greenwich Village never had the ferocity of the gangs of the Points or the Bowery, they were still not to be triffled with.
		While gangs of other neighborhoods had an uneasy relationship with the police - usually only fighting the police in large numbers or when combined with other gangs - the gangs of HK viewed the police as mosquitos - annoyances that needed to be done away with.
	www.irishinnyc.freeservers.com /catalog.html (20964 words)

	Jim Colosimo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Johnny Torrio, co-leader with Frankie Uale of the Five Points Gang of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, decided to move west to assist Colosimo.
		In 1919, Five Points enforcer Al Capone, who was wanted on murder charges in New York, decided to follow in Torrio's footsteps and joined Colosimo's Chicago organization.
		While Colosimo was reportedly Sicilian by birth (coming to America in 1872 when just one year old, or, according to other sources in 1881 when nine), he generally functioned outside of the Mafia establishment (and that is one reason he was targeted by Black Handers).
	www.onewal.com /w-colosi.html (336 words)

	The Free Information Society - Al Capone Biography
		His neighborhood was pretty tough and as a child he was a member of two gangs: the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors.
		Once he joined the Five Points gang of Manhattan, he became a bouncer and bartender at the Harvard Inn.
		Two of the men were dressed as police officers and the seven men in the building dropped their weapons, thinking it was a raid.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=45 (922 words)

	John Torrio
		He was still in his teens when he rose to the positions of subchief in Paul Kelly's huge Five Points Gang, one of the city's two most powerful (the other being the Eastmans), and of head of his own subgang, the James Streeters.
		He called all the gangs together - the Italian gangs, many of whom were mafioso, the North Side Irish, the South Side Poles, etc. He promised them that they'd all make millions and, what was more important, actually live to enjoy their wealth.
		The various gang leaders were tough men who'd made it to the top because they could shove better than others, but most of them were persuaded, by Torrio's logic and perhaps as well by his threats.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/torrio.html (1583 words)

	Alcohol and Al Capone
		At the moment there was a great deal too much competition; but possibly a well-disciplined gang of men handy with their fists and their guns could take care of that, by intimidating rival bootleggers and persuading speakeasy proprietors that life might not be wholly comfortable for them unless they bought Torrio liquor.
		Within three years it was said that the boy from the Five Points had seven hundred men at his disposal, many of them adept in the use of the sawed-off shotgun and the Thompson sub-machine gun.
		As the rival gangs-the O'Banions, the Gennas, the Aiellos--disputed his growing domination, Chicago was afflicted with such an epidemic of killings as no civilized modern city had ever before seen, and a new technic of wholesale murder was developed.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/ALLEN/ch10.html (5232 words)

	Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
		While many of these gangs were made up of brawlers and street fighters, there were some that consisted of robbers, thieves, and murderers.
		Warring members of the Five Pointers and the Eastmans (a major street mob headed by the infamous Monk Eastman) were blasting away at each other on Rivington Street under the Allen Street arch of the Second Avenue elevated railroad.
		He was a crack shot with a revolver, and an accomplished artist with a sling-shot, a fljack, and a pair of brass knuckles, not to mention a piece of lead pipe wrapped in a newspaper, always a favorite weapon of the thug.
	www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_1-3-00.html (2517 words)

	Meyer Lansky
		Seeing as they were both equally tough to beat, out of that fight, they garnered respect and created a bond that would make them friends for life.
		They also became friends for life and, together with Luciano, formed part of what became known as the Five Points Gang.
		As a younster, Lansky's life was saved many times by Siegel, a fact Lansky always appreciated.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Meyer_Lansky.html (458 words)

	GameSpy: The Matrix Online - Guided Tour #4
		The Five Points is a gang largely composed of ravers -- youths whose desire for a good time supersedes all else, including the lives of those unlucky enough to get in their way.
		The Five Points are brazen in their behavior, standing boldly on the street awaiting victims, especially in the vicinity of their favorite club, Jacob's Ladder.
		Even so, it is still a gathering point for exiles and redpills, and as such may be of use to you in your pursuit of allies to aid in our struggle.
	pc.gamespy.com /pc/the-matrix-online/529766p1.html (917 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Five Points Gang was formed by Johnny “The Fox” Torrio in Brooklyn, NY.
		Over the course of five years, there were 136 gang hits, and only six had trials with only one conviction.
		Bugs Moran’s gang dismantled afterwards and he would later be imprisoned for robbery and die of cancer in jail (Ryan 127).
	home.messiah.edu /~cd1188/capone.doc (2386 words)

	Al Capone
		Run by an older criminal, Johnny Torrio, James Street was a youthful subsidiary of the notorious Five Points Gang to which Capone later graduated.
		Among his closest friends, in school and in the gang, was a kid who was to become a major crime figure, Lucky Luciano, and the two would remain dear friends the rest of their lives.
		Their most impressive coup was arranging the killing in 1924 of Dion O'Banion, the head of the largely Irish North Side Gang.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/acapone.html (1609 words)

	Free Essay Al Capone Biographical Essay
		He became a good leader of the junior gang and was introduced to the Five Points Gang in Brooklyn by Frankie Yale and John Torrio.
		Each gang was trying to eliminate their competition by killing rival gang members.
		The most celebrated gang boss and murderer in the country was going to prison for tax evasion (Stockdale 42-43).
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26179 (2099 words)

	Black Hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The leadership of the Morello gang was on shakey ground, Saietta had gone to prison along with a few other top officials and Terranova had struck it rich by cornering the market on all artichokes that came into the U.S. Masseria saw his chance to take over.
		The original Five Points gang was ruthless and would often fight to the death, which left room for a high turn over rate of gangland talent.
		The five families would continue to exist, but they would not answer directly to Luciano (who was at least recognized by the entire syndicate as its new leader, although he never admitted to it or accepted the title).
	dks.thing.net /Black_Hand.html (4816 words)

	Johnny Torrio and the Dream of Real Organized Crime
		In 1909 Big Jim was threatened by some "Black Handers," and to keep a war from breaking out by using his own men to handle the problem, he called on some on some of his friends in New York to provide the support he needed.
		The "Five Points" gang was noted for contracting out some of its people to carry out the type of work Big Jim wanted.
		Again a call went back to the New York Five Points Gang, to send someone that could be trusted to take care of the problem.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/20722 (531 words)

	TIME.com: Coming Out Party -- Mar. 24, 1930 -- Page 3
		A cousin in Brooklyn's "Five Points" gang hid him away from the police.
		Gangs were formed to supply the demand, to beat off rivals.
		Fierce was the hostility between the South Side gang under Torrio and the North Side gang under Dion O'Banion.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,738873-3,00.html (716 words)

	Five Points - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Five Points, Manhattan, a former slum neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City
		Five Points Gang, a 19th century Five Points, Manhattan gang
		If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Five_Points (131 words)

	Gang Land Contest (2)
		The winners will be announced July 1, or as soon after as possible, depending on the volume of entries and the ability of Gang Land's less than crack staff to sort through all the entries and determine the winners.
		Which two Cosa Nostra bosses not from New York had their offices illegally bugged by the FBI and suffered the indignity of having to read their taped conversations in books and newspapers.
		Name the five Colombo family mobsters who have publicly broken their vow of omerta and testified against fellow mobsters at federal trials.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column77.htm (506 words)

	"THE FIVE POINTS RULES THE WORLD!"
		Their efforts led to the Five Points riot of 1857.
		On Sunday, July 4th, the first day the laws took effect, Five Pointers celebrated Independence Day with saloons open and full, as was traditional.
		When the Metropolitan Police tried to enter the neighborhood, the Five Points riot began.
	www.ashp.cuny.edu /five-10.html (214 words)

	Al Capone - WikiChicago
		About five years later, on January 17, 1899, the couple’s fourth child was born, Alphonse Capone.
		He joined two kid gangs, the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors, and then went onto joining the Five Points gang in Manhattan.
		Though smart, he dropped out of school after sixth grade at the age of 14, and is rumored to have pimped prostitutes before reaching puberty.
	www.wikichicago.com /index.php?title=Al_Capone (1264 words)

	Al Capone Biography (Scarface) St. Valentines Day Massacre – EncycloMedia.com
		During his teen years Capone was involved in 2 different gangs, the “Brooklyn Rippers” and the “Forty Thieves Juniors.” After getting in a fight with his teacher at 14 years old, Capone quit school and began picking up odd jobs around town including a candy store clerk and a bowling alley pin boy.
		Al Capone was convicted of only five of his twenty-three counts, and the judge sentenced him to ten years in federal prison and one year in county jail.
		In Al Capone’s last days, before he was convicted and sent to prison, he was more or less a front man for the mob and there were other leaders that called the shots.
	www.encyclomedia.com /al_capone.html (1815 words)

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