Hell S Kitchen New York 1970s
Graboyes in new york photography 6 comments hell s kitchen one of new york s more colorfully named neighborhoods sits on the west side of manhattan between 34th and 57th streets eighth avenue and the hudson river.
Hell s kitchen new york 1970s. Mar 17 2018 explore tim stolzenberger s board hell s kitchen early 1900s followed by 115 people on pinterest. After being released from jail in 1970 he started building up his own irish gang so he could take over the rackets from mickey spillane. With such rich history behind it hell s kitchen seems to embody the tough determined spirit of new york and it would be a pity if the city forgot these roots. Many of the irish families had fled to long island or new jersey.
See more ideas about hells kitchen new york public library nyc history. When several men including their husbands are arrested in a mafia sweep the women take over the business of. Until the 1970s hell s kitchen was a bastion of poor and working class irish americans. By the mid 1970 s the stable hell s kitchen in which the gangs had flourished had ceased to exist.
The westies were a new york city based irish american organized crime gang responsible for racketeering drug trafficking and contract killing they were partnered with the italian american mafia and operated out of the hell s kitchen neighborhood of manhattan. The 1970s are considered a low point for new york city. According to crime author t j. Hell s kitchen was now a.
English although never more than twelve to twenty members depending on who was in or out of jail. More than 820 00 people fled the crime and an unreliable transit system over the course of the decade moving from the city to the suburbs. See more ideas about hells kitchen vintage new york nyc. Jimmy coonan 1977 1986 jimmy coonan led the most violent irish gang hell s kitchen and new york has ever seen.
It follows the wives of irish mobsters in hell s kitchen new york in the 1970s.