Neighbors' Sons
The Neighbors' Sons was a New York street gang which, operating in the neighborhoods between Bleecker and Grove Streets, were rivals of the Gopher Gang and the Hudson Dusters during the early 1900s.[1]
During a brawl between members of the Neighbors' Sons and the Hudson Dusters on
St. Vincent's Hospital with minor gunshot wounds and were taken into custody for their connection to the shooting.[2]
Known for their frequent altercations with law enforcement, police arrested gang members Thomas McManus, John O'Brien and George Fox, arresting two for assault and attempted robbery as well as a third for interfering in the duties of a police officer after attempting to mug a Ninth Avenue
surface car conductor on May 31, 1913. That same morning, police conducted a search for another member who had been stabbed by a rival gang. However, they failed to find him.[3]
They were among many of the gangs who were broken up during the police campaigns against the city's street gangs during 1916.
References
- ISBN 1-56025-275-8
- ^ "Two Shot in Gang Fight, Shooting Affray Startles Crowd In Horatio and Washington Streets". New York Times 30 July 1912
- ^ "Shooting Arouse Police, A Patrolman Killed Yesterday Morning". New York Times 01 June 1913