Mugshots of mobsters in 1930s New York found in private diaries of detective now up for auction
James Michael Coonan (born December 21, 1946) is an American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who served as the boss of the Westies gang, an Irish mob group based in Hell's Kitchen, from approximately 1977 to 1988. Coonan was incarcerated and began serving a 75-year prison term in 1988. Biography
How the Irish Mob nearly wiped out the Italian Mafia in NYC
The Irish Mob. Season 1. From the Irish gangs of New York in the late 1800s through to the 1970s, this six-part documentary series tells the stories of the first generation Irish kids who became some of America's most notorious and wanted gangsters. This story represents the 'American Dream' in its totality - the idea that a kid from.
Whitey Bulger Is Dead in Prison at 89; LongHunted Boston Mob Boss The New York Times
Among its most prominent groups were the Irish Mob, Jewish gangsters, and the Italian Mafia. While each were distinct and membership was drawn among ethnic lines, both Irish, Italian, and Jewish gangsters play significant roles in the story of the Castellammarese War. In 1930, the Italian Mafia in New York was divided.
An affair. The mob. A murder. Washington Post
Al Capone returned to Chicago to see in the New Year, he was a happy man, he had taken his revenge on the Irish mob. * Originally published in 2021, updated in Dec 2023.
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Irish American gangster Jimmy "the Gent" Burke, and the crew that inspired the iconic Martin Scorsese film "Goodfellas," are in the news again.. Last week, the New York Daily News reported new.
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From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld, The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob is the true account of the vicious gang that ruled Hell's Kitchen from the 1960s through the 1980s. Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy Coonan and Mickey.
Mugshots of mobsters in 1930s New York found in private diaries of detective now up for auction
Mass Market Paperback - March 15, 1991. Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs, James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell's Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City's West Side. They became the most notorious gang in the history of.
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The Irish Mob (also known as the Irish mafia or Irish organized crime) is a usually crime family -based ethnic collective of organized crime syndicates composed of primarily ethnic Irish members which operate primarily in Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and have been in existence since the early 19th century.
The Westies Inside New York's Irish Mob by T.J. English
One day in the 1980s, this Irish American gang nearly changed gangland history by wiping out the entire New York Mafia. It was the gang's legendary propensity for extreme violence that.
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Westies 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. [3]
How the Irish Mob nearly wiped out the Italian Mafia in NYC
The Five Points Gang was a criminal street gang of primarily Irish-American origins, based in the Five Points of Lower Manhattan, New York City, during the late 19th and early 20th century. [1] Paul Kelly, born Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, was an Italian American who founded the Five Points Gang.
Photos show the original gangs of New York in the 19th century Daily Mail Online
Directed and produced by Martin Scorsese, the Irishman is a must see for any fans of the gangster movie genre. Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci star among an ensemble cast. The plot follows an elderly Frank Sheeran, the titular Irishman played by De Niro, remembering his time as a hitman for the Italian American Mafia in 1950's Philadelphia.
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This is a list of Irish-American mobsters which includes organized crime figures of predominantly Irish-American criminal organizations or individual mobsters from the early 1900s to the present. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American and a mobster . List
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Pubs with gang roots Mickey Spillane's (350 West 49th Street) is named for the last true Irish godfather of Hell's Kitchen, according to Wolin. He ruled the neighborhood from 1960 through 1977.
Mob Is Back at San Gennaro Festival, Officials Say The New York Times
A photo tour and interactive map of New York Mafia history.. By the 1980s, the Irish-American community was moving on, and the area was starting to diversify. But a new generation of Irish.
Irish Mafia? That's the name of Upstate NY's newest brewery
From a New York Times-bestselling author: A true story of Irish gangsters in Manhattan--"A harrowing account of big city crime" (Library Journal). It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power.