tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post5020594008715311794..comments2024-03-28T18:01:17.304-07:00Comments on Daytonian in Manhattan: Stereopticons, Mantillas and Cigar Store Indians - 579-581 BroadwayTom Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13542224816886418433noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-23699757885683599302022-04-20T12:50:27.746-07:002022-04-20T12:50:27.746-07:00I found this on Culture Trip: at 579 Broadway, the...I found this on Culture Trip: at 579 Broadway, there used to be a bar and dance spot called Stanwix Hall, records Exploring New York’s SoHo. This is where William Poole, also known as ‘Bill the Butcher’, was fatally shot at age 33 by friends of his Tammany Hall-backed political rival and future congressman John Morrissey on February 25, 1855; he lingered on until March 8. Poole was a ferocious former bare-knuckle fighter (as was Morrissey), leader of the Bowery Boys gang and an enforcer of the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic Know Nothing political movement. His legend for thuggery was such that he inspired the Daniel Day-Lewis character in Martin Scorsese’s 2002 Gangs of New York.<br /><br />And Wikipedia: Morrissey plotted revenge and on February 25, 1855, recently fired NYPD patrolman Lewis Baker and Jim Turner, who were allegedly acting as enforcers for Morrissey, shot Poole in the leg and chest at Stanwix Hall, a bar on Broadway near Prince, at that time a center of the city's nightlife.[8]Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03443483188709909853noreply@blogger.com