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Clayton is joined by documentary filmmaker, Jack Wesley Friedman. Friedman is a fifth-generation New Yorker and creator of "The Cobble Stone Wars", a mini-series documentary on NYC's underworld circa 1900. The documentary details the history of Manhattan that existed in between The Five Points and the emergence of the Mob. The period in the early 1900s is described by Friedman as "the birth of the American Gangster", and the first installment of The Cobble Stone Wars series centers around Monk Eastman -- a Jewish gang leader who ran organized crime on the Lower East Side. Friedman's documentary uncovers members, like Eastman, of the city's underworld that are largely forgotten in the landscape of NYC gang history.

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