This is a list of identities referenced in Herbert Asbury's 1928 book The Gangs of New York including underworld figures, gang members, crime fighters and others of the Old New York era from the mid- to late 19th and early 20th century. Some were also portrayed in Martin Scorsese's 2002 film Gangs of New York.
Gang members
Batavia Street Gang Baxter Street Dudes Bowe Brothers Bowery Boys Car Barn Gang Charlton Street Gang Corcoran's Roosters Daybreak Boys Dead Rabbits Dutch Mob Eastman Gang Five Points Gang Forty Thieves Gas House Gang Gopher Gang Grady Gang Hell's Kitchen Gang Hook Gang Hudson Dusters Humpty Jackson Gang Italian Dave Gang Jimmy Curley Gang Lenox Avenue Gang Leslie Gang Little Auggies Mandelbaum Gang Marginals Molasses Gang Nineteenth Street Gang Pansies Patsy Conroy Gang Potashes Slaughter House Gang Squab Wheelman Gang Swamp Angels Tenth Avenue Gang Tub of Blood Bunch Walsh Gang White Hand Gang Whyos Gang Yakey Yakes Yiddish Black Hand Independent leaders ==Other criminals==
Other criminals
Burglars and sneak thieves Confidence men and swindlers Fences and financers Gamblers Prostitutes ==City officials==
City officials
Police Draft riots Politicians Tammany Hall sluggers ==Other personalities==
Other personalities
Bowery Bums Celebrity residents Chinatown residents Industrialists Journalists Reformers Saloon keepers Sportsmen ==References==