Gangs of New York (due out Fall 2001) Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz ... working class youths who harassed churchgoers, according to the book, "Gotham" by Edwin G. Burroughs and Mike Wallace. By ...

In the 1950s, gangs in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Boston started becoming more organized and more dangerous, Bartollas said. The 1960s saw the emergence of some of the street gangs ...