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“ Warriors, come out and play-ay!” via imgkid.com Remember the New York gangs that overrun the city’s moonlit streets in Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic The Warriors? Meet the real-life ‘ Warriors’ in Rubble Kings. The new documentary from Shan Nicholson (and produced by Jim Carrey) charts the untold story of the real-life ‘ Warriors’. Made over seven years on a ,000 Kickstarter budget, the doc contains remarkable unseen archive footage and connects the dots between street culture and the birth of hip-hop. In the 60s and 70s, New York was a hotbed of crime, with warring gangs at each other’s throats. The Bronx was a battlefield. Violence came to a head and ended in the pact to end all pacts: the Hoe Avenue peace meeting, where gangs came together to broker a truce. This later became the inspiration behind the gang summit at the beginning of The Warriors, where leader of the Gramercy Riffs shouts “ CAN YOU DIG IT?” five too many times. Key leaders of the most notorious gangs offer insight into the criminal underworld of an alien New York. Forerunners from the very earliest days of hip-hop such as Afrika Bambaataa (an ex- Black Spade warlord Kool Herc, and DJ Red Alert also connect the dots between the city’s hard knock life and the origins of hip-hop. The crime-riddled era of New York past is already endless pool from which filmmakers draw, and it hasn’t run dry yet. An upcoming documentary called The Seven Five exposes the police corruption in a Brooklyn precinct. Romeo + Juliet director Baz Luhrmann is currently working on a 2016 Netflix series based on the street gangs featured in Rubble Kings, called The Get Down. Rubble Kings is set for a September cinematic release in the UK. Can you dig it? Watch the trailer for Rubble Kings below.
Nowhere in America do poverty and wealth exist so closely to one another as in New York City. Even from the darkest corners of Brooklyn, one need only look up and across the East River to see the great temples of Wall Street wealth looming over the night. Since the birth of the city, New York's poorest residents, whether Irish, Jewish, black, or Puerto Rican, have made their own gold from the streets of the city. Sometimes the elements of crime were needed to harvest this gold. But as the violence slowly spread toward the rich and powerful, the apparatus of control, the police and the government, swung into action and, miracle of miracles, New York, the rotten apple, became the safest big city in America. or that's the official story. In New York City, 1970, heroin was the king. Teenage gangs terrorized the streets of Brooklyn and Bronx, and mafia leader Joe Colombo decided to fight the government, not in the street but on television. Colombo's crime family was locked in a war with crazy Joey Gallo. Gallo had aligned himself with black gangsters from Brooklyn while serving time in prison. The speculation that Joey Gallo was behind the black assassin of Joe Colombo was never proven, but it certainly showed how crime and drugs could unite the gangster tribes of New York across racial lines. A flood of cheap heroine washed over the city courtesy of the Italian Mafia and the police department was so notoriously corrupt that the Knapp Commission was set up to investigate the widespread bribery that organized crime used to insulate themselves from the law. Puerto Ricans had been granted U. S. citizenship in 1917 and after the war they became the largest group coming into New York. By the mid '60s the South Bronx was in a state of economic freefall. Every study that has been made indicated that the Puerto Ricans live in the worst conditions of slum housing, have the worst jobs.
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Theatrical release poster This article is about the 2002 film. For the Herbert Asbury book, see The Gangs of New York (book). For other uses, see Gangs of New York (disambiguation). Gangs of New York is a 2002 American historical fiction film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of Lower Manhattan. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1927 non-fiction book, The Gangs of New York. It was made in Cinecittà, Rome, distributed by Miramax Films and nominated for numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Most of the film takes place in 1863. The two principal issues of the era in New York were Irish immigration to the city and the ongoing Civil War. The story follows William Bill the Butcher Cutting ( Daniel Day- Lewis) in his roles as crime boss and political kingmaker under the helm of Boss Tweed ( Jim Broadbent). The film culminates in a violent confrontation between Cutting and his mob with protagonist Amsterdam Vallon ( Leonardo Di Caprio) and his allies, which coincides with the New York City draft riots of 1863. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Soundtrack 4 Historical accuracy 5 Release 6 Reception 6.1 Box office 6.2 Critical reception 7 Accolades 8 Television adaptation 9 See also 10 References 11 External links Plot[edit] On February 6, 1846, at Paradise Square in Lower Manhattan's Five Points, a territorial battle of hand-to-hand combat between William Bill the Butcher Cutting's U. S.-born nativist gang, the Natives, and Priest Vallon's Irish Catholic immigrant gang, the Dead Rabbits, concludes when Cutting kills Vallon, witnessed by Vallon's young son, Amsterdam. Cutting declares the Dead Rabbits outlawed but orders that Vallon's body be buried with honor. Amsterdam seizes the knife used to kill his father, races off, and.