What history does the movie Gangs of New York related to?
”The Gangs of New York” is a seriously flawed movie, but it does depict, rather ineptly, several historical events. The gangs themselves did exist, although, beyond the name, there was very little of substance about the Dead Rabbits. The Five Points and the Old Brewery are actual locations which had a very checkered history, as detailed in Jay Nash’s ‘Bloodletters and Badmen, a History of Crime in America.’ ”Black Thursday,” the Irish anti-draft riots which played havok with New York City, is a historical event, although the movie rather lost that point amid the mishmash of other events. Tweed and his Tamney Hall cohorts were corrupt politicians, although their real historical significance took place nearly thirty years after the anti-draft riots. There is some historical basis to almost everything depicted in the film, but that doesn’t make it historical accurate nor a good movie.
