Jimmy Coonan and the Westies. The body snatchers of Hell's Kitchen. 

You got the voice Boss for doing anything but stick with 😂 these, interesting context....love these Irish gansters stories...great job.

I can listen to these every day ✌🏼

This is an excellent doc that you've made. I grew up around some folks from the Kitchen. Much of what you've put in this doc, I had heard as a kid. They were the real deal killers. A former mobster said in a doc, "I would rather be surrounded by an army of Italian wise guys than two Westies." Detective Richie Egan called Mickey Featherstone "the most feared white man in NYC." Mickey would take on guys twice his size in fights and beat them within an inch of their lives. Coonan would just have to say he was going to sic Mickey on someone, and that was enough to get people in line. Their fearless and careless use of violence later brought on their demise as a crew.

You picked the perfect day for this classic and it's still know as Hell's kitchen only yuppies call it Clinton well done my friend

Perfect timing for St Patty's Day! Have a great Sunday, Boss!

i'm from heck's pantry.

Thanks for this one BOSS we been waiting for it ✌️💥🔥💢💯

Thanks boss great video as always

Your research is top notch I enjoy sending my envelope to the boss .I don't think u know how diverse ur audience is I work at a small college and was wearing my shots rang out shirt and 2 young students came up to me and tod me how great ur show is

Man, you are fantastic, your dignified demeanor and delivery are impeccable Subject matter is riveting. Today's king of cool. Thanks again

Well played sir. This is brilliant. All the best, from England.

"Feel how heavy this head is." - Jimmy Coonan.

A few bad mam GREAT VIDEO BROTHER. I just subscribed and as a new Yorker it's great how you can learn so much more about NY. And I love how you explained the history behind EVERYTHING. Keep up the hard work amazing videos and GOD BLESS YOU

Good job. The way you told it kept it exciting.

11:38 Who knew Van Morrison was involved in the New York mob....

I remember when this all went down, the UWS paid close attention to the goings on down there. Thanks for a great telling of the story.

Fire do the rest of the brain AR boss its a lot of channels out here tryna out do you but your the best keep jt up

Thanks!

dig the music, almost sounds like something from shaft ya dig

Jimmy is one mean looking dude

Real good program.

And then there's a possibility that you can end up like Bill the Butcher in a graveyard that eventually turns into a weed-filled vacant lot.

ANY CHANCE YOU CAN DO A VIDEO ON GAGLIANO? NOBODY HAS DONE ONE ON HIM AND THERE IS NO INFO OUT ON HIM AND HE WAS AN ORIGINAL HEAD OF A FAMILY FOR 20 YEARS THATS A TRUE BOSS IN THE SHADOWS

Good Stuff! I hit the Sub! 👍🏽

Great video. The wild, wacko Westies. Subject of a great book by PJ English, "The Westies" Basis for a great movie, "State Of Grace." What more could they ask for?

Good video

This drives me nuts, the footage at 0:12 with Lucky Luciano on a speed boat, is that Frank Costello in the back?

It was and will always be known as Hells Kitchen!

Nice picture of Ruby Stein 👌🏾

Hey Boss, I love how you use clips with movie marquees that are relevant to the period of the stories you tell.

Very interesting boss, I’ve never really studied The Westies so it’s very intriguing to get the scoop on it. Also, a future video on Roy Demeo and his crew would certainly be interesting. I first heard about Roy through The Iceman (but we all know he was a bullshitter)…I think I may have to read “Murder machine” along with the book Roy’s son wrote “For the sins of my father”

Thanks

At 11:04 a middle-aged woman passerby being filmed nods at the camera. Little did she know it would be used as footage in a documentary about organized crime.

How about some Tongs? Some opium dens? Loved the Purples btw!

Happy St Patrick's Day!!!

I grew up in Hells kitchen I was born in 1947 we always called it Hells kitchen I don’t know who came up with that dumb name Clinton but me and my family Hells kitchen

Yes , Yes , Yes . 👌🏻🍻

Great video once again homie! The Westies and the Irish mob are required to read about the history of organized crime in America. It's one of my favorites! I highly recommend the brilliant writings about this subject by T.J. English called PADDY WHACKED and The Westies. This is the best and most authentic channel on the subject of organized crime history in my opinion.

After the Houdini....having lunch in a good Steakhouse.

Shots rang out🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I don't know who came up with the name, Clinton But my neighborhood Has been and always will be Called HELL'S KITCHEN Born raised and live here 4LIFE ❤

The Irish are known for holding Grudges, loooooong grudges.

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It's Hell's Kitchen... damnit. I hate how hipsters and yuppies call it Clinton. Just like they call Spanish Harlem, East Harlem

"I never met a dame yet that didn't understand a slap in the mouth." ~ Humphrey Bogart, speaking about the fairer sex in one of the many gangster movies he starred in. An all-time great movie line. Back in the days when the men wore the pants, the ladies wore the earrings, and the chrome was thick on the Cadillac bumpers.

That movie from the late 80's State of Grace was about the Westies. It was a good classic I'm from Brooklyn my father use to talk about them in the 80's. They also did a lot of killing for the mob when ppl use to think the Italians was doing it the most no it was the Irish

From south Boston. Grew up in the 70s and 80s when the Irish mob was in full control , being full Irish I would bump into them All the time

please do hoodies and t shirts for westies ill cop them joints

SALUTE

A vid abt Monk Eastman, a NYC gang leader, FM the 1890s to the early 20rh Century, would B vy interesting. Read abt him in the book "Gangs of NY." If ppl think the wild West was wild, they would B stunned 2 read abt just hw wild the East was. Specifically, NYC.

Part 2???

Love yourself❤

Featherstone the psychopath living free next door to a friend near you! #Wepushback

MY GRAND MOTHER BROUGHT MY MOM FROM SICILY TO NY EAST SIDEMISS HER MADE THE BEST FOOD

These guys are. Not human

There was a irish gang from philly called the K&A gang you should look into them , no other channel has that i know of.

Needs to be a real westie movie not film based on them

Ayeee y’all. FBM what’s up brother man. Happy St.Patrick’s ☘️

Who would have $600in the till of a bowling alley in the 50s?

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Me n mickey share a bday

Today, jimmy is scuhylkill fci, jokes around a lot and drinks Diet Pepsi all day and likes watching the news

DID MICKEY SAY LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG LEAVE A GOOD LOOKING CORPSE

in 1910 madden was shot by the hudson dusters in a bar by the west side docks ..madden was shot 11 times and some how survived i have a lot of info on the gangs.. sullivan was a piece of sh/t so was featherstone and coonan...spillane had standards and never dealt with ihe guineas btw i know things that only ten people know...like why gotti shot the mick in the bar in staten island the REAL REASON ...what a movie that would make

@5:56 That's not Coonan.

To AlexMajax, only against the English.😊

Micky being assigned to a Battalion from one of the US Army's Special Forces Groups does not mean he was a Green Beret. It means he was assigned to a Special Forces Group. Yes, they wore a green beret like the guys on an A Team. That happened until the 1980s or maybe 1990s when a female soldier, assigned to one of the Groups, had become pregnant and the Group Commander and Group CSM saw her waddling around 9 months pregnant with the green beret on her head and they petitioned USASOC to assign those in support of the SF soldiers a red beret as they are in an airborne unit but not assigned to an SF team. Plus, mail clerk is not an MOS in the Army so Micky had another primary job there.

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How is this not White Face?

THAT BACKGROUND MUSIC SWALLOWS...👎👎👎

Y9k jidt in time

Thanks!

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