Martin Scorsese's cinema the Gangs of New York tells the tale of the gang wars betwixt competitor groups inward the Five Points district of Lower Manhattan inward the mid-Nineteenth Century. The cinema was based on the truthful gang wars which took identify inward the area. One of the almost notorious battles betwixt the gangs was the Dead Rabbits Riot, a two-day battle which took identify on July 4–5, 1857.
The Gangs of New York floor map recounts this street struggle betwixt members of the Dead Rabbits gang together with the Bowery Boys using an historical map together with images from the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
I created the map using Leaflet.js together with waypoints.js. Using waypoint.js amongst Leaflet allows you lot to trigger map interactions yesteryear browser scrolling. The upshot is that you lot only ask to scroll downwardly the Gangs of New York map to progress through this retelling of the Dead Rabbits Riot.
I've also added a few other images dating from 1856-1858 to the map together with a YouTube video clip from Scorsese's film. Just click on the video to play together with interruption the cinema clip. When you lot accept finished scrolling through the history of the Dead Rabbits Riot you lot tin dismiss zoom out on the map to thought the ikon markers dotted around Lower Manhattan on the map.
I haven't tested the map on a mobile or tablet device but I mean value waypoints.js doesn't play equally good well amongst these devices. Therefore the Gangs of New York map is likely best viewed on a desktop or laptop computer.
