His exploits included the capture of the British ship HMS Macedonian.

Many worked in brass and copper fabrication shops in the basements, while the wares were sold in street level stores.

[4] In September 1903, a gun battle was fought beneath the El tracks at Allen and Rivington Streets between followers of Paul Kelly, leader of the Five Points Gang, and the rival gang of Monk Eastman.

At one point a hundred men joined the fray, with police driven off by gunfire.

[5] Fire destroyed an overcrowded tenement on Allen Street in March 1905, claiming the lives of twenty people.

This created a broad thoroughfare with a meridian mall in the center and the El running down the western roadway.