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Carola Mandelbaum

CAROLA MANDELBAUM is an investigative journalist in New York City.

Requiem for Bill "The Butcher" Poole

A tall Marine with a face of Ireland played "Taps," but the freezing winds from the East River blew the music away. It was a somber ceremony. Yet after 150 years of anonymity, Bill "The Butcher" Poole had finally gotten some recognition.

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The Brooklyn Rail

JUNE 2023

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