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The Westies were a New York City-based Irish American organized crime gang, responsible for racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract killing.They were partnered with the Italian-American Mafia and operated out of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
Hell's Kitchen, formerly also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.It is considered to be bordered by 34th Street (or 41st Street) to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west.
Francis Thomas "Mickey" Featherstone (born September 2, 1948) is an American former mobster and the second in command of the Westies, an organized crime syndicate from Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan in New York City, led by James Coonan. Featherstone committed several mob killings before he was convicted in 1986 of a murder he had not committed.
The Gopher Gang was an early 20th-century New York street gang who counted among its members Goo Goo Knox, ... Although most police rarely patrolled Hell's Kitchen ...
(Only season 2, 2016), depicts a gang of Irish American mobsters, known as the Kitchen Irish, trying to replace the Kingpin as the dominant crime family in New York, which brings them into conflict with the Punisher when he wipes out most of the gang's leadership in an ambush. Their base of operations is next to the Hell's Kitchen bikers club ...
The Dark Side of Reality TV’s Hell's Kitchen episode airs Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 9 p.m. ET on Vice TV. For more People news, make sure to sign up for our newsletter! Read the original article on People.
In 1868, Heinrichs organized the Hell's Kitchen Gang whose members committed street muggings and petty theft in the areas between Eighth Avenue and Thirty-Fourth Street.He later joined with Ike Marsh and the Tenth Avenue Gang launching a campaign against the Hudson River Railroad which included extortion, breaking and entering, destruction of railroad property and armed robbery.
James Michael Coonan (born December 21, 1946) is an Irish-American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who served as the boss of the Westies gang, an Irish mob group based in Hell's Kitchen, from approximately 1977 to 1988. Coonan was incarcerated and began serving a 75-year prison term in 1988.