The Albany County jail had the highest rate of violence in its history this year, with many of the incidents occurring between New York City and upstate gangs. And last month, three teenagers were ...

What is Gangs of New York About? In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father ...

Actor Stephen Graham is looking back at the time he nearly broke his Gangs of New York costar Leonardo DiCaprio’s leg. During ...

Mike Moy says he was a member of a gang in New York City's Chinatown. He was recruited at his school's gates and then got involved in a gang in the 1970s. Moy claims he was involved in gambling ...

In the god-forsaken district of early-1860s Lower Manhattan known as the Five Points, the vicious Nativist, Bill "The Butcher" Cutting, is the supreme overlord of an area riddled with crime ...

One of the most chilling things in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York is a sound. The "chink chink" of a man tapping his glass eyeball - with the blade of a knife. He's underlining his point.