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 ...

Set in the Five Points section of Lower Manhattan in the 1860s, Gangs of New York gave audiences a New York City history lesson through the lens of Scorsese's artistic vision. Scorsese drew ...

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.

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 ...

who arrives in New York City in 1863. His father (Liam Neeson) was killed there 16 years earlier by William Cutting, otherwise known as Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis), an anti-immigrant gang ...