Herbert Asbury

A 'Good Fellow' in Gotham- A Literate Gilded Age Thief

In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all o  read more »

A ‘Good Fellow’ in Gotham— A Literate Gilded Age Thief

Timothy Gilfoyle.
Dorothy Gilfoyle
Timothy Gilfoyle.

In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all o  read more »

Breaking the Code Of New York's Gangs

One of the mysteries of Gangs of New York concerns the moniker of the Dead Rabbits-the mythic, suppo  read more »