Members of the Lenox Avenue Gang at Coney Island mb-height 1444 14th November 1978

14th November 1978

Plate 2 from Diseases of the Hip-Joint by William Coulson (London

1931 Triumph Scorpion outside the Bell Inn

Left profile portrait of John Cleland

Members of the Lenox Avenue Gang at Coney Island mb-height 1444 14th November 1978Members of the Lenox Avenue Gang at Coney Island, New York, USA, 1912. The Lenox Avenue Gang was one of the most violent New York organised crime gangs of the pre Prohibition period. The four men in the photograph are Francesco Cirofici, Jacob Seidenschner, Louis Rosenberg and the gang's leader, Harry 'Gyp the Blood' Horowitz (1889 1914), They were later executed for the murder of Herman 'Beansie' Rosenthal, a prominent gambler and police informant,