[ansel12]

“”I guess it’s going to take some more violence like ‘the gangs of New York’. “”

Not much truth in the film, in the year of that opening mass death scene with all the impossible to believe hacking and stabbing , there were only 10 homicides that year in all of NY.

The poverty wasn’t real, the Navy firing on the population, the Chinese people, very little real to it the historians say.

[AuntB]

I’m no student of the New york immigration riots. What we have today sounds like it’s a lot worse, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better. There are streets in LA where legal citizens can’t cross the street or it’s a death sentence by the Latino, mostly illegal 18th st. gangs, etc.

[Alouette]

Not much truth in the film, in the year of that opening mass death scene with all the impossible to believe hacking and stabbing , there were only 10 homicides that year in all of NY.

The poverty wasn’t real, the Navy firing on the population, the Chinese people, very little real to it the historians say.

What historians have you been reading? Read Charles Dickens "American Notes," Herbert Asbury "The Gangs of New York" (which the movie was based on, sort of) and Ivors Bernstein "New York City Draft Riots of 1863."

The only inaccuracy in the film was the Chinese population--Chinese at that time were almost entirely on the West Coast.

The opening scene is a huge gang rumble that did take place in 1858.

Yes, they had to bring in troops from Gettysburg to stop the rioting in New York, even if it meant shooting down civilians on the street--which was done.