Monk Eastman
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Edward "Monk" Eastman, was an American gangster who founded and led the Eastman Gang in the late 19th and early 20th century; it became one of the most powerful street gangs in the city. His aliases i
1903 NYPD mugshot
Paul Kelly, illustration by William Oberhardt, 1909
Monk Eastman, circa 1910–1920
The 1920 military funeral procession of Monk Eastman in New York City
Eastman Gang
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The Eastman Gang was a predominantly Jewish-American street gang that dominated parts of the underworld in New York City during the late 1890s until the early 1910s. Along with the increasingly Italia
Monk Eastman
…Edward "Monk" Eastman (1875 – December 26, 1920), was an American gangster who founded and led the Eastman Gang in the late 19th and early 20th century; it became one of the most powerful street gangs in the city. His aliases included Joseph "Joe" Morris, Joe…
The Eastman Gang began in the early 1890s around Corlear's Hook, Lower East Side, New York City, in a photograph, circa 1876.
Gangster Christopher Wallace shortly after being arrested with Monk Eastman, 1904.