Gambling and bootlegging Tammany Hall and City Hall Wall Street and sports and the theater are all joined at the hip-or, rather, the hip flask.Īt the heart of all this wickedness nests a “Prince of Darkness,” Arnold Rothstein: the New York City gangland kingpin of kingpins, the shady moneyman who bankrolled baseball’s infamous 1919 World Series Fix. Here in the big city resides a crowded world of power and vice, of bright lights and big money, of murder and more murder circling itself like a venomous snake. Welcome to the kaleidoscopic netherworld of Jazz Age Manhattan. A site by site, crime by crime, outlaw by outlaw walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan-where gamblers and gangsters, crooks and cops, showgirls and speakeasies ruled the day and, always, the night.
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