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.
“”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.”””
I never mentioned that at all.