Chick Tricker’s saloon at 128 Park Row, Eat-‘Em-Up Jack, Ike the Blood, Indian Louie and Leoni the Trouble Maker: these are sketches of the gangsters, gunmen and hangers-on of downtown Manhattan. Lewis tells them in the slang of the street, from how Pioggi went to Elmira to the wages of the snitch.
A vivid, slangy portrait of the New York underworld in the era of the gang wars. Download the free EPUB.