SCOUT· 65%49m·2026-07-17·History#490 The Murder of Bill the Butcher
It’s a scene more commonly imagined today in a Wild West saloon -- a shootout at Stanwyx Hall, across from the most elegant hotel in New York. The year was 1855, and the combatants were bitter rivals who had fought many times, including once in the notorious neighborhood of Five Points. By the end, one man lie…
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“170 years later and his political party should be restarted”
“Daniel Day Lewis’s acting as Bill the Butcher in this movie is one of those movies that just blew me away, and sold me on good movies. It’s one that you absolutely slip away into the movie like it’s real life. Just beyond words really. A tr…”
“We need more Bill the butchers nowadays. He would lose his mind if he saw New York today.”
“Could you even imagine what Bill would think and say if he were alive in New York today?”
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