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Meet George Appo, pickpocket, con man, mayor of underworld New York in the late 19th century. In Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the streets, addicts drifted in opium dens and swindlers worked the lucrative 'green-goods' game. Here is the New York that gave us Edith Wharton, Gangs of New York and the Brooklyn Bridge.Gilfoyle, Timothy J. is the author of 'Pickpocket's Tale The Underworld of Nineteenth-century New York', published 2007 under ISBN 9780393329896 and ISBN 0393329895.
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