The Dead Rabbits: The Story Behind One Of 19th-Century New York’s Most Notorious Gangs
All That's Interesting | 14.05.2026 23:00
The 2002 film Gangs of New York focuses on two gangs in 19th-century New York: the Natives and the Dead Rabbits. In real life, the Natives were called the Bowery Boys. But Dead Rabbits truly existed and, just as the movie suggests, the group was composed of Irish immigrants.
