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The Last Pirate of New York ― A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
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Was he New York City's last pirate...or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan--for fans of Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire.
Albert Hicks was a feared, shadowy figure of the New York underworld in the mid-1800s. Handsome and charismatic, he was known to frequent the dive bars and gin joints of the Five Points, the most dangerous neighborhood in maritime Manhattan. For years, he operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime, working on the water, in ships, sleeping in the nickel-a-night flops, drinking in barrooms where rat-baiting and bear-baiting were great entertainments.
Hicks's criminal career reached its peak in 1860, when he was hired, under an alias, as an extra hand on an oyster sloop. His plan was to rob the ship, make his getaway, and disappear in the teeming streets of lower Manhattan, as he'd done numerous times before. But the plan went awry, and the voyage turned into a massacre. In the straits of Coney Island, on a foggy night, the ghost sloop, adrift and unmanned, was rammed by another vessel. When police boarded the ship to investigate, they found no bodies, only the grisly signs of struggle. A manhunt was launched for the mysterious merchant seaman on the manifest.
Long fascinated by gangster legends, Rich Cohen tells the story of this notorious underworld figure, from his humble origins to his incarnation as a demon who terrorized lower Manhattan, at a time when pirates anchored off of 14th street.
Albert Hicks was a feared, shadowy figure of the New York underworld in the mid-1800s. Handsome and charismatic, he was known to frequent the dive bars and gin joints of the Five Points, the most dangerous neighborhood in maritime Manhattan. For years, he operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime, working on the water, in ships, sleeping in the nickel-a-night flops, drinking in barrooms where rat-baiting and bear-baiting were great entertainments.
Hicks's criminal career reached its peak in 1860, when he was hired, under an alias, as an extra hand on an oyster sloop. His plan was to rob the ship, make his getaway, and disappear in the teeming streets of lower Manhattan, as he'd done numerous times before. But the plan went awry, and the voyage turned into a massacre. In the straits of Coney Island, on a foggy night, the ghost sloop, adrift and unmanned, was rammed by another vessel. When police boarded the ship to investigate, they found no bodies, only the grisly signs of struggle. A manhunt was launched for the mysterious merchant seaman on the manifest.
Long fascinated by gangster legends, Rich Cohen tells the story of this notorious underworld figure, from his humble origins to his incarnation as a demon who terrorized lower Manhattan, at a time when pirates anchored off of 14th street.
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Rich Cohen is the author of The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, and the New York Times bestsellers Tough Jews, The Avengers, Monsters, and, with Jerry Weintraub, When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper's Magazine, among others. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award and the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award, and his stories have been included in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing. He lives in Connecticut.
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