Doyers Street

The Bloody Angle is a bend in the road in the Doyers Street in Chinatown in New York City.

In the 1920s, the Chinatown in New York City was dominated by gang warfare. Many gangs organized themselves into so-called Tongs and fighting each other. The Tongs, partly consisted of a family clan or simply out of a committed criminal fraternity as the On Leong and Hip Sing, fought at the bend in the Doyers Street always bloody gang fights the. This brought the city the nickname Bloody corner. Time and again, members of other bands were lured under false pretenses, in the Doyer Street into an ambush. It was not until a 1933 ceasefire closed prepared the killings to an end.