THE GANGS OFTHE LOWER EASTSIDE

• 1880-1920

• Poles, Italians and Jews

TWO MAJOR GANGS

The Five Points Gang

- 1500 Members

The Eastman Gang

- 1200 Members

TWO LEADERS

The Five Points Gang

- Paul Kelly 1876–1936

The Eastman gang

- Edward “Monk” Eastman

1875 – 1920

Gangs’ BasesPaul Kelly - New Brighton Dance Hall

Monk Eastman

NEW BRIGHTON DANCE HALL

Back Then

Nowadays

THE FIVE POINTS GANG

A TA K E- O U T M E N U O F I T S S E RV I C E S

Punching ($2)

Nose and jawbone broken ($10)

Leg or arm broken ($19),

Shot in the leg ($25)

“doing the big job” ($100 and up)

T H E R E A S O N S C AU S E L A G R E G A N G S

Police Department

- Not Effective

Providing Homes

- Not Enough

G R OW T H O F F I V E P O I N T S G A N G S

Italian immigrants

- Nearly four Million

Money

- Threatening Voters

THE EASTMAN GANG

Running Brothels

Protection Rackets

Drug Rings

Murder-for-hire Operations

Voter Fraud

WARFARE

1903

Rivington Street

Almost 100 People With Weapons

Lasted Several Hours

Police Came At End

TWO MONTHS PEACE

A Tammany Hall Deputy

- Tom Foley

End up with a Boxing Match

- Bronx.

KELLY V S EASTMAN

Tight Match

- Used to be a Professional Boxer

- Quite Large Man

Draw

- A Tammany Hall Supported Five Pointers

MONK EASTMAN

Fall Of The Eastman

- Leader Was Beaten

- 10 Year Sentence

Successor was murdered

- Max Zwerbach

MAFIA GANGS

Take Over All The Five Pointes Criminal Activities

- Monk Eastman – 1920

- Paul Kelly - 1936

T H E G A M E S O F LOW E R E A S T S I D E

Honorable Motions

- Monk Eastman Went To World War I

- Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Celebrity Gangsters

- John "Papa Johnny" Torrio, Papa Gangster

The End