Title
- Underworld Of Nineteenth-century New York
Attribution
Timothy J. GilfoylePublication Details
Book1st edW.W. Norton2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV6653.A66 G55 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
Meet George Appo, pickpocket, con man, mayor of underworld New York in the late nineteenth century. In George Appo’s world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- The trials of Quimbo Appo
- Urchins, Arabs, and gutter- snipes
- A house of refuge at sea
- Appo on: violence
- Factories for turning out criminals
- The "guns" of Gotham
- Drafted
- Opium dens and Bohemia
- The old homestead
- The dives
- Appo on: Jack Collins
- Tombs justice
- Appo on: Good fellows
- Fences
- "That galling yoke of servitude"
- Danny Driscoll and the Whyos
- Eastern State Penitentiary
- Green goods
- Appo on: Jersey City
- Poughkeepsie
- Appo on: Stealing guys
- The Lexow Committee
- In the tenderloin
- A marked man - - Buried alive
- A genuine reformation
ISBN
- 0393061906
- 9780393061901
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