Mapping The Gangs Of Novel York

Martin Scorsese's celluloid 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 celluloid was based on the truthful gang wars which took identify inward the area. One of the about 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 alongside Leaflet allows you lot to trigger map interactions yesteryear browser scrolling. The number is that you lot only ask to scroll downward 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 recess the celluloid clip. When you lot accept finished scrolling through the history of the Dead Rabbits Riot you lot tin zoom out on the map to stance the ikon markers dotted about 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 likewise good alongside these devices. Therefore the Gangs of New York map is likely best viewed on a desktop or laptop computer.