The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob Paperback - 2006
by T. J. English
In the tradition of The Godfather, The Westies is a powerful tale spanning 60 years. A gang of Irish-Americans, the Westies patrolled Manhattan's West Side throughout the '60s, '70s, and '80s. They ruled the tough blue-collar neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, where bodies were known to literally fall from the sky.
From the rear cover
WHO WERE THE WESTIES? THE MOST SAVAGE ORGANIZATION IN THE LONG HISTORY OF NEW YORK STREET GANGS.
--Rudolph Giuliani VIOLENT PSYCHOPATHS.
--New York Newsday SOME VERY BAD BOYS.
--New York magazine Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy 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 organized crime, excelling in extortion, numbers running, loan sharking, and drug peddling. Upping the ante on depravity, their specialty was execution by dismemberment. Though never numbering more than a dozen members, their reign lasted for almost twenty years--until their own violent natures got the best of them, precipitating a downfall that would become as infamous as their notorious ascension into the annals of crime. Must reading...will shock even the most hardened readers.
--Playboy
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- Title The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
- Author T. J. English
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher St. Martin's Griffin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date October 31, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780312362843 / 0312362846
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.27 x 5.44 x 1.09 in (21.01 x 13.82 x 2.77 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Irish
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects Hell's Kitchen (New York, N.Y.), Gangs - New York (State) - New York - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006050612
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.1
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