October 2023 issue contents - Features
'Death Avenue,' 1910-1924
By Patrick Downey
Occupying the northern edge of New York’s traditional Lower East Side is the area known as the East Village. The main artery cutting through this section is Second Avenue. From the East Village’s southern boundary of Houston Street up to the northern border at Fourteenth Street, Second Avenue includes a total of fourteen blocks, which over the years have seen a vast number of murders.
The deadliest era on those fourteen blocks spanned almost exactly fourteen years, from 1910 to 1924. With all the gangland executions that took place on the thoroughfare, it just as well could have been called “Death Avenue”...
Book page count: thirteen pages.
Magazine page count: six pages.
Images: nine.
Source list.
Magazine page count: six pages.
Images: nine.
Source list.
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