| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface: Crossing 96th Street | |
| Introduction: The Capeman and the Vampires | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Remaking New York | 27 |
| Ch. 2 | Discovering Gangs: The Role of Race in the 1940s | 51 |
| Ch. 3 | Defending Place: Ethnicity and Territory | 78 |
| Ch. 4 | Becoming Men: The Use of the Streets in Defining Masculinity | 106 |
| Ch. 5 | Making a Gang Culture: Form, Style, and Ritual in the Gang World | 137 |
| Ch. 6 | Leaving the Gang: Pathways into Adulthood | 164 |
| Ch. 7 | Intervening in Gangs: The Problems and Possibilities of Social Work | 188 |
| Ch. 8 | Drugs, Politics, and Gangs, 1960-1975 | 217 |
| Conclusion: Comparing Gangs: Contemporary Gangs in Historical Perspective | 246 |
| Notes | 263 |
| Index | 319 |
