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vintage everyday: The Manhattan 'Brotherhood Republic' – Pictures of a Teenage Street Gang in New York City in 1955 Street Gang, 1950s Photos, Gangs Of New York, Republic Pictures, Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Martin Parr, Flatiron Building, Nyc Street

In 1989, Hugo Kugiya reported on the “Manhattan Brotherhood Republic'” for the News/Sun-Sentinel. Every afternoon at 4. That’s all that mattered to a 14-year-old Sol Kasson. “I was there everyday. That was my life,” he said. Kasson and his buddies would run straight from school to their club. The place, on Manhattan’s lower East Side, was called the Boys Brotherhood Republic. They were so anxious, sometimes they arrived early and would have to wait outside the doors until Harry Slonaker…

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