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Paul Kelly (born Francesco Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli; [1] December 23, 1876 – April 3, 1936) was an Italian-born American mobster, who founded the Five Points Gang in New York City. He had started some brothels with prize money earned in boxing. Five Points Gang was one of the last dominant street gangs in New York history.
Paul Kelly, born Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli before utilizing an Irish-sounding name, was an Italian-American who organized and partially founded the more cohesive “Five Points Gang.” While the gang had some continuity with the prior Irish gangs of the Five Points, it eventually predominately consisted of the Italian immigrant and Italian ...
The Eastman Gang was a predominately Jewish-American street gang that dominated parts of the underworld in New York City during the late 1890s until the early 1910s. Along with the increasingly Italian-American and Italian immigrant Five Points Gang under Italian-American Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, best known by his pseudonym Paul Kelly, the Eastman gang succeeded the long dominant Whyos as the ...
Eat 'Em Up Jack became known as the right-hand man of Paul Kelly, leader of the Five Points Gang. Always dressed in the finest clothes, McManus cut a fearsome figure around New York until May 1905, when he met his end after a brawl with gangster Chick Tricker.
Paul Kelly, illustration by William Oberhardt, 1909. Eastman's greatest rival was Paul Kelly (born Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli), an immigrant leader of the majority-Italian Five Points Gang. In 1900, at the turn of the 20th century, Eastman lived at 221 E. 5th Street, about two blocks from Kelly's New Brighton Social Club at 57 Great Jones Street.
Tyrone Muhammad, 53, a former enforcer for the Gangster Disciples who did 20 years in state prison, now runs a violence prevention program in Chicago’s inner city. He’s warning that Chicago ...
From 'Goodfellas' to 'Law & Order,' revisit some of the best performances by Paul Sorvino, the beloved actor who died Monday at age 83.
This eventually begins a gang war between the Eastmans and Paul Kelly's Five Points Gang. Evidence of La Mano Nera (The Black Hand), an Italian extortionist organization, is seen in Brooklyn, New York. Sicilian Mafia Don Vito Cascio Ferro [Cascioferro] arrives in New York to become a major leader of La Mano Nera (The Black Hand).