Potashes
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Potashes (gang)
| In | Manhattan, New York |
|---|---|
| Founded by | Red Shay Meehan |
| Years active | 1890s |
| Territory | Greenwich Village |
| Ethnicity | Irish American |
| Criminal activities | Assault, armed robbery, river piracy |
| Rivals | Boodle Gang, Hudson Dusters |
The Potashes were a 19th-century American street gang active in Greenwich Village and the New York waterfront during the early-to mid 1890s. One of the many to rise in New York City during the "Gay Nineties"-period, the gang was led by Red Shay Meehan and based near the Babbit Soap Factory on Washington Street (hence their name) near present-day Rector Street. The gang were described as "a collection of hard fighters, who terrorized the whole neighborhood and even dominated the other gangs".[1] They and the much older Boodle Gang dominated Lower West Side Manhattan until the end of the 1890s when they were displaced by the then emerging Hudson Dusters who would go on to control the area for the next decade.[2][3]
References
- ^ Moss, Frank. The American Metropolis from Knickerbocker Days to the Present Time. London: The Authors' Syndicate, 1897. (pg. 274)
- ^ Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. (pg. 58, 237) ISBN 1-56025-275-8
- ^ Sante, Luc. Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. (pg. 216-217, 225) ISBN 0-374-52899-3
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