TheSlaughter Street Gang, known as theSlaughter Street, were a prominentstreet gang inNew York'sFourth Ward during the late 1880s to the mid-1990s.
TheSlaughter Street, known for their violentmuggings andmurder, were infamous for luring an unsuspecting victim into a localdive bar where he would berobbed and sometimes murdered. However, if the victim refused to enter, the gang would follow the victim until passing a window where a woman would dump a bucket of ash, blinding the victim, and he would be attacked and pushed into a cellar door. The victim would then be robbed of everything of value, including his clothes, and thrown onto the street. The leading member of the gang wasGeorge Leese, a knownriver pirate and mugger involved in staging Fourth Ward illegalbare-knuckle prize fights. The Slaughter Housers remained the dominant gang in the Fourth Ward until after theAmerican Civil War when police finally managed to drive the gang from the neighborhood.