A well read copy with plenty of life left and a fascinating story to tell. No loose pages and only a slight colour change to pages. In good preloved condition with the exception of soiled areas at the top of the book and just inside the front cover.

Unconscious … The Gangs of New York is the portrait gallery in the ancestral mansions of your bad dreams.’

It deserves this privileged placement because it owns a direct pipeline to the city’s Scott Fitzgerald’s “My Lost City” … and Martin Scorseses Mean Streets. ‘The Gangs of New York is one of the essential works of the city, as deserving of a permanent place on the shelf as Stephen Crane’s Maggie, F. Herbert Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather. is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence. ‘A universal history of infamy, the history of the gangs in New York (revealed by Herbert Asbury) contains all the confusionĪnd cruelty of the barbarian cosmologies.’ –JORGE LUIS BORGES (from the Foreword) With this book … I knew I had to make a film about these people and that period of American life.’ - MARTIN SCORSESE I started to read it, and I couldn’t stop. Get exclusive content, new member-only rewards, access to the latest issue of the magazine plus our back-issue archive, and much more.‘Martin Scorsese’s film version of Herbert Asbury’s The Gangs of New York will resurrect Five Points gangs like the Plug-Uglies and the Dead Rabbits and will make A Clockwork Orange seem like a nice movie about Beethoven.’ –The New York Observer Want to get the most from Empire? Sign up for Empire Membership! Whether this one makes it out of the development rumble remains to be seen… This isn't the first time Scorsese was involved in a Gangs TV series – a version touted in 2013 planned to follow Gangs from other cities as well as the Big Apple. It'll be a completely new take with different characters from the film. Leonard, who is one of the executive producers on Apple TV+'s Shantaram. This new small-screen version is spearheaded by Miramax TV and Brett C. Herbert Asbury’s 1927 non-fiction tome The Gangs Of New York was adapted by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan into the movie, which chronicled DiCaprio's Amsterdam Vallon returning to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher (Day-Lewis), his father's killer. And now, because it appears to be the way of all things, the original book is being turned into a TV series, which Scorsese will help to launch by executive produce and direct the first two episodes. The drama starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis and Cameron Diaz and scored 10 Oscar nominations. Asbury presents an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather. In 2002, Martin Scorsese directed Gangs Of New York.

The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury