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B0CKWMZP61 MP3@64 kbps Author: Herbert Asbury Narrator: Peter Lerman This is the 1927 book that years later inspired the movie of the same name. It is a book about criminal violence, corrupt politics and police, and illicit sex. The City of New York, from the late colonial period up to the early twentieth century, was a bustling hub of commerce, industry, and immigration. For many the city was the gateway to a new life in America, and for many others it was a place to steal a buck from their fellow New Yorkers and visitors to the city with thievery, fraud, and vice-in neighborhoods such as the Five Points, the Bowery, Hells Kitchen, and the Water Front.