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Eastman Gang
Monk Eastman leader of the Eastman Gang from a New York Police Department mug shot, 1903
Founded
1890s
Founded by
Monk Eastman
Founding location
Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York
Years active
1890s–1910s
Territory
Manhattan, New York
Ethnicity
predominantly Jewish-American but also some Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans and English-Americans[1][2][3]
Criminal activities
Armed robbery, theft, illegal gambling, extortion, prostitution, and peddling opium
Allies
Batavia Street Gang, Lenox Avenue Gang
Rivals
Five Points Gang, Whyos, Yakey Yakes
Notable members
Richie Fitzpatrick
Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach
"Big" Jack Zelig
Jack Sirocco
Chick Tricker
Julie Morrell
The Eastman Gang was the last of New York's street gangs which dominated the city's underworld during the late 1890s until the early 1910s. Along with the Five Points Gang under Italian-American Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, best known as Paul Kelly, the Eastman gang succeeded the long dominant Whyos as the first non-Irish street gang to gain prominence in the underworld during the 1890s. Its rise marked the beginning of a forty to fifty-year period of strong Jewish-American influence within organized crime in New York City.
Under the leadership of Monk Eastman, a well known bouncer and hired thug, the Eastman Gang spent the next decade establishing a criminal empire in Manhattan's Lower East Side through criminal activities, including prostitution and illegal gambling. They operated stuss games, and established strong political connections through Tammany Hall.
The EastmanGang was the last of New York's street gangs which dominated the city's underworld during the late 1890s until the early 1910s. Along with...
Monk Eastman'sgang. The rivals disputed claims to a strip of territory of the Lower East Side in Manhattan. In 1901, a Five Pointer shot Eastman in the...
Edward "Monk" Eastman (1875 – December 26, 1920) was an American gangster who founded and led the EastmanGang in the late 19th and early 20th century;...
Monk Eastman claims New York's East Side for the EastmanGang, now numbering an estimated 1,100. This eventually begins a gang war between the Eastmans and...
mid-late 19th century. The gang controlled most of Manhattan from the late 1860s until the early 1890s, when the Monk EastmanGang defeated the last of the...
threatening to destroy Colosimo's café. Gas House Gang member William Jones is imprisoned. EastmanGang leader Chick Tricker's Park Row dive bar is closed...
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under Jack Zelig's EastmanGang. Mainly operating around 125th Street in Harlem, then a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, the gang generally committed...
City. The EastmanGang were also headquartered around Corlear's Hook and may have had its beginnings as a break away gang of the Short Tail Gang. The Short...
5, 1912) was an American gangster and one of the last leaders of the EastmanGang. Born Selig Harry Lefkowitz in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New...
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New York gang was the Jewish EastmanGang. Meanwhile, Chinese immigrants formed tongs, which were highly structured gangs involved in gambling and drug...
1, 1904) was a top gunman in the Monk Eastmangang in New York City. He had defected from the Five Points Gang in the early 1900s; he was active during...
Mau Maus was the name of a 1950s street gang in New York City. The book and the adapted film The Cross and the Switchblade and biography Run Baby Run document...
up the money. The gang was allied to the EastmanGang who were at almost constant war with the Five Points and Humpty Jackson Gangs between the late 1890s...
grounds of self-defense and soon attracted the attention of gang boss Monk Eastman. When Eastman was locked up for robbery the next year, Kid Twist found...
(died May 14, 1908) was an early New York gangster and member of the EastmanGang under Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach. Lewis was a wrestler, strongman, and...
Paul Kelly's Five Points Gang, where he was the immediate boss of Johnny Torrio [1], Sirocco defected to the rival EastmanGang, which he led in its last...
Batavia Street Gang was a New York independent street gang based in the Fourth Ward during the 1890s. Affiliated with the EastmanGang during the turn...
(abbreviated as SBB) is a famous New York City street gang. In the 1950s, various Italian-American gangs were formed in South Brooklyn, New York City, and...
American criminal and member of the Five Points Gang, known most prominently for the murder of EastmanGang leader Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach and Vach "Cyclone...
Harry Vallon was a New York City gambler and mob informant. He turned state's evidence and testified against the gunman in the murder of Herman Rosenthal...
along with Everett Applegate, in 1936. Monk Eastman, New York gangster and leader of the EastmanGang, was sentenced to 10 years at Sing Sing in 1904...
December 26 – Monk Eastman is killed by a corrupt Prohibition agent. Giuseppe Masseria assumes control of the New York City Morello Gang. Matthew Joseph...
bookmaker, by NYPD Lieutenant Charles Becker and members of the Lenox Avenue Gang. The trial ran from October 7 to October 30, 1912, and restarted on May 2...
Burnstein, Retrieved Jun. 15, 2017. "Howie Winter, 83 and ex-head of Winter Hill Gang, arrested for alleged organized criminal activity - Metro Desk - Boston.com"...
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