Hell’s Kitchen is a working class neighborhood on the west side of Midtown, Manhattan. At the turn of the century the area was largely an Irish and Germen enclave. Throughout the early years of the twentieth century, the most common activity for a young male was to be in some sort of gang. The most powerful of the early Hell’s Kitchen gangs was the Gophers, named so because they usually met in tenement …showed first 75 words of 1879 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1879 total…S Attorney’s office identified the two men as the last of the ruling structure of the “Westies”. U.S Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, added that his office had, once and for all crushed this “violent organized crime group that terrorized and exploited the Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan for the last twenty years”. Giuliani also went on to call the “Westies”, “ the most savage organization in the long history of New York City gangs”.