In 1846, in Lower Manhattan's Five Points district, a territorial war raging for years between the gangs of the Nativist faction (comprising those born in the United States from earlier English & Dutch Protestant immigrants) and the recently arrived, predominantly Irish Catholic immigrants, is about to come to a head in Paradise Square.
The Nativists are led by William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting. The leader of the immigrant Irish, the Dead Rabbits is Priest Vallon, who has a young son, Amsterdam. Cutting and Vallon meet with their respective gangs in a horrific battle, concluding when Bill kills Priest Vallon, which Amsterdam sees. Cutting declares the Dead Rabbits outlawed and orders Vallon's body buried with honor. Amsterdam is found and taken to the orphanage at Hellgate. Sixteen years later, Amsterdam returns to New York. Arriving in Five Points, he reunites with an old friend, Johnny Sirocco. Johnny, now a member of a clan of pickpockets and thieves introduces Amsterdam to Bill the Butcher, for whom the group steals. Amsterdam finds that many of his father's old loyalists are now under Bill's control. Amsterdam soon works his way into the Butcher's inner circle. Amsterdam learns that each year, on the anniversary of the Five Points battle (February 16), Bill leads the city in saluting the victory over the Dead Rabbits, and he makes plans to kill the Butcher during this ceremony, in front of the entire Five Points community, in order to exact public revenge.
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