The Westies: NYC’s Last Irish Gang Rises and Falls Amid the Javits Center Era
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A new MGM+ miniseries revisits the rise and brutal downfall of Hell’s Kitchen’s Irish gang, the Westies, chronicling their extortion, murders and shifting alliances during New York’s Javits Center boom and Rudy Giuliani’s crackdown that helped dismantle them.
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