What connects Martin Scorsese to the names The Dead Rabbits, The Daybreak Boys, and The Whyos (among others)?
Dead Rabbits riot involved in criminal activity. The Dead Rabbits paid for a letter to "The New York Times", denying those assertions. The Dead Rabbit Riot was featured in the "History Channel" documentary television series "History's Mysteries" in 1998. The story of the New York Dead Rabbits is told, in highly fictionalized form, in Martin Scorsese's 2002 film "Gangs of New York", which was partially inspired by Herbert Asbury's book "Gangs of New York". In the 2014 film, "Winter's Tale", the Dead Rabbits and the Short Tails are featured prominently; a similar theme pervades Mark Helprin 1983 novel of the same name. The
Dead Rabbits Dead Rabbits The Dead Rabbits was the name of an Irish American criminal street gang in Lower Manhattan in the 1850s. The Dead Rabbits were so named after a dead rabbit was thrown into the center of the room during a gang meeting, prompting some members to treat this as an omen, withdraw, and form an independent gang. Their battle symbol was a dead rabbit on a pike. They often clashed with Nativist political groups who viewed Irish Catholics as a threatening and criminal subculture. The Dead Rabbits were given the nicknames the "Mulberry Boys" and the "Mulberry Street Boys"